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This Smart Rubik's Cube Is Teaching Me How to Solve One After 40 Years of Failure

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…

Andrew Liszewski

2/22/21 3:00PM

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Swing Into the New Year With Even More Wonderful Toys

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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The Spider, the Child, and the Wizard Lead the Charge for This Week's Best Toys

Welcome back once again to Toy Aisle, where your responsible budgeting for the week all goes out the window. This…

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Jinkies, Playmobil's Scooby-Doo Sets Are Frightfully Fun

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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11 of the Coolest Builds By Bored People With a Lot of Lego Bricks

There are a lot of reasons why Lego remains one of the world’s most popular toys, over 3,700, in fact: the number of…

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A Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube That Floats In the Air is Completely Hands-Off

You’d be forgiven for assuming that this video was the work of a talented animator, a visual effects artist, or an…

Andrew Liszewski

9/16/19 10:00AM

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Self-Taught AI Masters Rubik’s Cube Without Human Help

Fancy algorithms capable of solving a Rubik’s Cube have appeared before, but a new system from the University of…

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I Actually Have a Chance of Solving This Motion-Sensing Rubik's Cube Handheld That Gives You Hints

Did the Rubik’s Cube, one of the world’s most deceptively simple puzzle games, need to be turned into a handheld…

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Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards

Rubik’s Cube-solving robots are far from a new idea. In fact, while the human record holder can solve a cube in just…

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This Robotic Rubik's Cube Can Solve Itself

It’s not going to set any world records, but this robotic Rubik’s Cube that’s filled with electronics and tiny…

Andrew Liszewski

9/25/18 10:07AM

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Self-Taught AI Masters Rubik’s Cube in Just 44 Hours

Meet DeepCube, an artificially intelligent system that’s as good at playing the Rubik’s Cube as the best human…

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Watch This Machine Solve a Rubik's Cube Faster Than My Jaw Can Drop

About a year ago last march, a robot called the Sub1 solved a Rubik’s Cube in 0.637-seconds, earning it the Guinness…

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Agents of SHIELD's Ghost Rider Gets the Figure He Deserves, and More of the Coolest Toys We've Seen This Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys we’ve seen all week. Although shiny San Diego…

Andrew Liszewski and James Whitbrook

7/14/17 3:00PM

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12/22/16

A Lego Contraption That Solves Giant 9x9x9 Rubik's Cubes Is Smarter Than You

If you feel inadequate about your inability to solve even a standard-sized 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube, then don’t watch this…

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Blink and You'll Miss the World's Fastest Rubik's Cube Solve [Update]

Speedsolvers, your new time to beat is 4.74 seconds.

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Win Friends and Influence People With This Rubik's Cube-Solving Program

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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Watch a Rubik's Cube Master Race the Fastest Man on Earth

Speed cubing champion Anthony Brooks is used to racing the clock when he’s solving a Rubik’s Cube puzzle, but since…

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Learn to Solve a Rubik's Cube in Less Than Two Minutes

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…

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Augmented Reality Will Now Help You Solve a Rubik's Cube

There are many ways to solve the standard 3x3 Rubik’s cube, each with its own advantages. Faster methods usually…

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You Can Stash an Insane Amount of Data in a Rubik's Cube

Remember that part in the new Snowden trailer, where Ed sneaks data out of the NSA by hiding a memory card in a…

Bryan Menegus

5/02/16 9:22AM

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