Everyone loves instant ramen, but eating the same starchy Maruchan crap every night is boring. Here’s a short list of ingredients that’ll help you doctor your ramen – and save you from feeling like the broke-ass that you truly are. More »
Since 1997, a man has been keeping detailed track of his instant noodle consumption. Such detailed track, in fact, that you can read reviews of the 4308 types of noodles he’s eaten on his website. More »
I’ll take six of the $US200,000 ramen-making robots Yoshihira Uchida built for his noodle shop Momozono Robot Ramen. The robot crafts completely customised ramen broth—there are over 40 million flavour possibilities you can configure. Mmmmm. More »
According to legend, University of Tokyo professor Masayuki Nakao was bitten by a radioactive ramen bowl when he was a kid, which gave him the ability to spit 1-micron-wide bowls made out of silicon—full of dozens of 20-nanometer-think carbon noodles floating in an ethanol soup—at supersonic speeds. Or maybe he did this one with a metal particle beam to demo a new circuit manufacturing technology using carbon nanotubes. Whatever it is, they are low on sodium: two molecules per serving. [Pink Tentacle]
Here’s an unexpected product from Sony: ramen radar. Yeah, it’s a piece of software designed to help you find a ramen noodle shop wherever you are. Now, as someone who’s gone on the record about his near-obsession with ramen, this sounds pretty amazing to me, albeit also kind of ridiculous. The X-Ramen Radar works by using Sony’s PlaceEngine system that uses a database of local WiFi hotspots to determine your location, then cross-references it with a database of ramen shops. Or something, it’s a little confusing and Japan-only. It could clearly be used for anything, but the fact that it’s made exclusively for ramen joints just makes it a real head scratcher. [Product Page via Digital World Tokyo] More »
