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A Watch No Amount Of Money Can Buy

It's the limited edition Bremont MBI with a red anodized case (above and below).

Why isn't your money good enough?

Because this special model of the MBII is available only to those aviators who have been saved by a Martin-Baker ejection seat.

Wrote Simon de Burton in a 2009 Financial Times story about the timepiece, "At the time of writing, the tally of ejectees, which is kept at Martin-Baker's UK headquarters in Buckinghamshire, stood at 7,280 since the first seat was put to use in November 1946, just four years after Sir James Martin penned the original designs for the MK1 following an airplane crash that killed Captain Valentine Baker, with whom he had founded the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company in 1934."

For those who have no need for a watch since, having survived an in-flight disaster which required ejection, they're quite aware of being on borrowed time, there's also the Martin-Baker tie, which for a long time has been available to those fortunate souls who belong to the Ejection Tie Club.

BanQ Restaurant in Boston

Located in what was once the  

Penny Saving Bank Building,

with a way cool interior 

by Office dA 

 made of wood 

in the form of waves.

Rapid Ramen Cooker

Finally.

From websites:

They say we eat with our eyes first. But what happens when an otherwise delicious meal gets set down in front of us, only to realize that it's been jammed into the wrong serving contrivance? If it's a bowl of ramen, shoving that rectangle into a round bowl can only have crumbly, unappetizing results. It's a wonder that anybody eats the stuff.

There is no great secret here to the Rapid Ramen bowl; it just happens to be a bowl designed to perfectly fit a packet of the dried noodles. No longer must we wade through a crumbled jumble of dried noodles. Just pop the noodle cake into the bowl, fill to the water line, and nuke it for about 3 minutes. Thanks to the shape of the bowl, the result will be evenly cooked noodles.

Finally, eating ramen no longer must be like forcing a square peg into a round hole.

Features and Details:

• Easy clean-up

• Dishwasher-safe

• Stove-top quality at microwave speed

• No additional bowls or measuring tools needed

• Perfect noodles each and every time

• No need for pots and pans

• Reusable

• BPA free

But wait — there's more!

If you have annoying roommates/housemates who routinely use your stuff without cleaning up afterwards, you can mark your territory (without stinking up the place a là fido) by selecting a personal color from the palette of 10 on offer.

$9.99 (ramen not included).