Cooking instant ramen isn’t exactly rocket science, and quite a few would argue that it isn’t exactly food, but these instant ramen doneness indicators are pretty cool. You simply place your cupmen on top of your ramen cup and wait for him to lose his color. Once the cupmen turns white, the noodles are ready to eat.

Price: About $10 [Book of Joe]

Lenovo has brought a functional-looking mini keyboard/trackball mashup that looks pretty damned close to all you need for an HTPC input solution. The Multimedia Remote with keyboard has a 30 foot range and gives you everything you need to navigate the OS of your choice or even do a bit of light messaging.

Price: $60 [Lenovo via CrunchGear]

While Russian design firm Art Lebedev doesn’t actually make this semi-trailer disappear, they do provide a cool effect to its backend. The effect makes it look like it might actually be transparent, hence the name, Transparentius. The trickery comes by way of a projector and front mounted cameras. Cool, but we don’t really need more distractions on the open road. [Make]

The folks at Vespa South Africa have put together a scooter that comfortably seats four people. If you ever felt the need to do a bit of scootering with three of your buddies on the same Vespa, there probably no safe ways to go about it; but of an unsafe lot, this is definitely the coolest option.

[Ubergizmo]

Do you want a hundred bucks? Of course you do, who doesn’t want a hundred bucks. All you need to do, or should I say have, is a really bad present and a good story to go with it. If you have both of those things, take a picture, head over to our new site, Really Bad Gift and make a submission. We will give the recipient of the worst present $100 to buy something better.