This is one smart device. When you have no visitors, the Party Timer is simply a cool digital clock, but as you start hanging out with more of your friends, this gadget analyzes the noise level and displays what sort of party you are having.

The Party Timer predicts 9 different party types, simply by analyzing the average sound level in your home. The ratings range from the quiet “No Party” to the extreme “Atomic Party” which is comparable to nuclear war breaking out. — Andrew Dobrow

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Do you find yourself constantly striving to get the perfect time and temperature to cook your instant noodles? I mean, sure, sometimes you forget that your noodles are done and wind up eating a cold and nasty dinner of instant noodles, and they taste like shit reheated. The Instant Noodle Perfection Timer reminds you of when your noodles are done.

A LED screen and a vocal countdown is used to keep you from having a sodium-filled hot dinner, rather than a sodium-filled cold dinner. What have you got to lose other than your pride? Available for $25. — Andrew Dobrow

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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]