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Pool noodles are synonymous with summer. In fact, we can’t recall any other use that pool noodles have ever been used for. All we remember are memories from our youth in which we would be chasing after our younger siblings and friends with the noodle between our legs, threatening to smack them with our phallus. Though we now see it as used for productively than simply a scare tactic device. The Pasta Chair integrates the comfort of long tubes into a chair form.

The Pasta Chair is actually made for a child’s room, but we would seriously consider getting one if it wasn’t for our fear of accusations of homosexuality. We are blindly homophobic. Which must sound odd coming from someone who just admitted to threatening to flog someone with a foam monolith of love. It actually looks pretty comfortable. — Andrew Dobrow

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Humorous at first, then ingenious at second thought. That was my impression on this tie from self confessed “pasta-philic” project, I Love Pasta. The tie gives the impression of an over-zealous pasta eater who just couldn’t keep the noodles in his mouth. Uniting the power of culinary yummy-ness and modern design, the pasta tie is a brilliant use of visual stimuli which definitely caught our eye. This tie doesn’t exist yet in any market, but we sure hope to see it available eventually. Next we want to see the “I Love Bananas” Pants. — Andrew Dobrow

I Love Pasta tie / Cookbook [Design Spotter]

How many bags or cups of Ramen noodles have you eaten in your lifetime? More than you can count? Then you are with the rest of us. You probably don’t read the instructions on the bag anymore (left them alone a long time ago), but if you were to lok at them, you would notice that there is one last step that (now) you always seem to skip. This step is the waiting period to 1) let the hot water soak in 2) let it cool down a bit. Normally you just dive in, and burn your tongue and the roof of your mouth just like last time. There is a device that helps you prevent this. It is simply a little timer that you can put your cup of noodles on that counts down those 3-4 minutes after pouring in the water that you always forget to wait for. It looks like a little stove burner, but it isn’t very convincing. Is the roof of your mouth worth $8? — Nik Gomez

Ramen Noodle Timer [via Gearlog]