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Design
What Is This?
3:46PM Danny Allen | Wait, is NASA making weather balloons shaped like a Rubik’s Cube now? More »
Music
Apple’s Simplistic IPod Marketing Trumped By Blatant Sexuality
11:00AM Mark Wilson | Short of physically inserting the waterproof Cube H100D into an open orifice, I can’t imagine this ad for the Chinese PMP being any more suggestive. [imp3 via Le Journal du Geek] More »
Gadgets
It’s Just Kinda Neat: Interactive Colour Cube
11:50PM Mark Wilson | The Interactive Colour Cube doesn’t do anything per se, other than change colour based upon its angle of rotation. Three accelerometers each control a different axis (X, Y, and Z) which directly correlate with either a red, blue or green set of internal LEDs (that “float” in a cube within the cube). The result is a logical, dynamic light show as you rotate the device. Here’s a clip: More »
Toys
Neocube Is Better Than the Rubik’s Cube Because There’s No Right Answer
8:30AM Jason Chen | Rubik’s Cubes are nice if you actually want to think, but how about for those times when you’re just sitting there and you want something to fiddle with? The Neocube has 216 spherical neodymium magnets that connect and make a cube, a sphere, or any other obscene shape that springs to mind. Show me a man who doesn’t like playing with magnets and I’ll show you a man I don’t much care for. All yours for just US$34.95. Bonus video after the jump. More »
Gadgets
Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Colour Phasing Fashion
10:15AM Haroon Malik | Seekway has put together this spectacular 3D LED display, which is capable of displaying images in full 3D (duh) at an amazing, 30 fps. The prototype consists of a 16 x 16 x 16 grid of interconnected colour LEDs and if our mathematics doesn’t fail us, that’s 4096 individual diodes. We’re sure you’ll agree; it looks amazing, but the video is even more fantastic, so jump in. More »
Gadgets
Rubik’s Cube Security Gadget Looks Too Complicated To Be Useful
1:20PM Jason Chen | 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 colour combination that only you know. “Solve” the cube for your colour 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] More »
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