A robot built out of Lego can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about 3.2 seconds, but some 40 years after I first picked up…
Welcome to back, to the first Toy Aisle of the year! The date may have changed but the fact that there’s even more…
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Welcome back once again to Toy Aisle, where your responsible budgeting for the week all goes out the window. This…
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Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of all things fun and plastic. This week, Playmobil unleashes a…
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Fancy algorithms capable of solving a Rubik’s Cube have appeared before, but a new system from the University of…
Rubik’s Cube-solving robots are far from a new idea. In fact, while the human record holder can solve a cube in just…
It’s not going to set any world records, but this robotic Rubik’s Cube that’s filled with electronics and tiny…
Meet DeepCube, an artificially intelligent system that’s as good at playing the Rubik’s Cube as the best human…
About a year ago last march, a robot called the Sub1 solved a Rubik’s Cube in 0.637-seconds, earning it the Guinness…
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys we’ve seen all week. Although shiny San Diego…
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If you feel inadequate about your inability to solve even a standard-sized 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube, then don’t watch this…
Speedsolvers, your new time to beat is 4.74 seconds.
Do you remember that Will Smith movie where he got the big high-powered Wall Street job by solving a Rubik’s Cube in…
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Speed cubing champion Anthony Brooks is used to racing the clock when he’s solving a Rubik’s Cube puzzle, but since…
Did you know there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways to scramble the 54 colored squares on a Rubik’s Cube? So how…
There are many ways to solve the standard 3x3 Rubik’s cube, each with its own advantages. Faster methods usually…
Remember that part in the new Snowden trailer, where Ed sneaks data out of the NSA by hiding a memory card in a…