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Rubik's Cube Security Gadget Looks Too Complicated To Be Useful

Could you imagine if you had to solve a Rubik's cube every time you had to access your email? Your Google Groups friends would call you up in about a week wondering if you died. Cheng-Li Hung thinks differently, and designed up this rather cool-looking (and slightly simplified) Rubik's security system. To secure your computer, just set up a color combination that only you know. "Solve" the cube for your color combo and you're back in. You can even set a time limit so people can't just guess. Neat idea, but it's too impractical to work. [Yanko Design]

9:20 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Jason Chen
6,723 views, 33 comments

Latest by Biohazard91: This is actually a pretty cool idea, but it'd only appeal to the extremely niche market of speed cubers. If more »

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Rubik's Cube from Strapya Simple Enough for Dubya

This mini Rubik's cube from Japan is one of those little phone straps that you attach to your mobile. As well as giving you hours of fun, it will scratch the back of your cell, annoy you when you talk, and give people an insight into your beliefs and how your brain works. More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jul 9 2007
By AddyDugdale
5,399 views, 6 comments

Latest by TM: This has been around for a while in US toy stores. It's called Rubik Jr. [tinyurl.com] more »

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Rubik's Cube Coffee Table Makes Your Apartment "Cool"

Personally, I've never been a fan of the Rubik's Cube. That's probably because it makes me feel like a complete moron, and I just end up peeling the stickers off and replacing them so it looks like I completed the puzzle. What can I say, I have no scruples. More »

3:45 PM on Fri Jun 15 2007
By Adam Frucci
8,339 views, 19 comments

Latest by Lody: if that could spin, I'd totally want one xD more »

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The Irregular Rubik's Cube


Going the complete opposite direction from the Idiot's Cube, this irregular cube is a Rubik's Cube that you need to solve with both color and shape. Called the Irregular IQ Cube, this strange geometric shape is supposed to end up like a standard Rubik's Cube when solved, but looks like a kid's science project when not. For only $8.50, you too can have a cube that rolls off your table every day to remind you that you should have studied harder in school. More »

9:00 AM on Tue May 22 2007
By Jason Chen
6,037 views, 14 comments

Latest by sstln: Well, I am 18 and one of my friends brought the square 1 cube to school about a week ago more »

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The Idiot's Cube

Rubik's Cubes too hard to solve? Try out this Idiot's Cube, and you'll never feel inferior to Will Smith again. Plus, it's a pretty inexpensive way to tell someone they're too stupid to figure out a real puzzle. Just in time for Mother's Day! – Jason Chen More »

7:15 PM on Tue May 1 2007
By Jason Chen
11,789 views, 13 comments

Latest by Noxian: My mom would definitely go nagging me instead for spending money on this as a mother's day gift! more »

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Rubik's Revolution: Crapping All Over 2 Classic Games

Imagine your two most beloved childhood games. Now imagine them mating and producing a deformed child. That is what the Rubik's Revolution is—the deformed love child of the classic Rubik's Cube and color/sound game, Simon. They took all of the puzzle out of the Rubik's Cube by not allowing the blocks to rotate. There are supposedly six different color and light games that the Rubik's Crapolution can play, but they are all pretty much the same thing: sound matching, color matching and pattern matching. Thanks for defecating all over my childhood, Rubik's Revolution. Jump to see a video of children, who obviously don't know any better, actually playing with the toy. More »

8:00 PM on Mon Apr 2 2007
By Travis Hudson
2,539 views, 11 comments

Latest by GBirdii: I remember laughing at this article a few months ago. It's now a little after Christmas, and lo and more »

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Mario Rubik's Cube Combines Best, Worst of 80s

Here we have two of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the 1980s together at last: Mario and the Rubik's Cube. One of these things is still a beloved part of both children of the 80s and current children's lives; the other, well, it's kind of kitchy, I guess. More »

12:45 PM on Wed Feb 21 2007
By Adam Frucci
808 views, 4 comments

Latest by Monty: One of these things is still a beloved part of both children of the 80s and current children's lives; the more »

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Rubik's Cube For the Lazy

If they've got Rubik's Cubes for the blind, why not one for the lazy? Speaking of lazy, whatever happened to those omnipresent moving walkways, auto-shavers, and sexy, sexy robots from The Jetsons? We thought the future was supposed to be so lazy-friendly, when it turns out we have to do even more work than before. – Jason Chen More »

6:25 PM on Thu Feb 15 2007
By Jason Chen
9,724 views, 15 comments

Latest by eblingmis: As inspired by the People's Cube? [www.thepeoplescube.com] more »

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Rubik's Revolution: Hot Potato in a Cube


After 300 million Rubik's Cubes have sold worldwide, it's apparently time for a revolution (translation: new product that won't be as big a deal). While manufacturers added obligatory lights, sound and voice effects to the Cube, they've tweaked altered obliterated gameplay in the process. How so? More »

1:26 PM on Sat Feb 10 2007
By Mark Wilson
5,989 views, 11 comments

Latest by nimbus828: I just returned from ToyFair and I got to play this, it is actually quite alot of fun. I think more »

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Rubik's Cube MP3 Player's Puzzle: Who Would Want It?

From the cool-looking-but-totally-impractical department comes this Rubik's Cube MP3 Player concept. Look, it's a Rubik's Cube! And it plays music! More »

12:44 PM on Wed Jan 17 2007
By Adam Frucci
1,464 views, 13 comments