And Sonic. And Pac-Man. Even President Obama makes an appearance, although I don’t think Hope: The Video Game is out just yet.

For reference, artist John Quigley says the Obama one took about 20 hours to complete. That time, since I’m a self-deprecating kind of guy, puts my personal Rubik’s Cube record — which will remain undisclosed — to shame. [Technabob via CrunchGear]

It took five people two months to recreate Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper in Rubik’s Cubes, but it will take those same five people the rest of their lives to solve it. [Popped Culture via firstcoastnews via Neatorama]

The box has a button and an LCD display on the lid. When you press the button, the display will show you how far, in kilometers, you are from the goal location. It doesn’t give you directions, so you need to triangulate where you’re supposed to go via trial and error. Oh, and you can only press the button 50 times.

There’s a pretty sweet disguised back door built-in as well, just in case the battery dies or the GPS unit fails.

Spoiler: the box only opens when brought to Île-de-Bréhat, France. As for what’s inside?

With all the electronics, there wasn’t much room inside the box for anything too substantial. I put in a few local (US) gift cards to entice them to visit soon, a set of Kazuo Ishiguro audio books (on a USB key), and an overly sentimental card. And of course, as I pointed out in the card, if either of them fancies doing a little Arduino development, there’s a perfectly good Duemilanove to play with, not to mention an LCD, a servo, and a GPS.

I guess the puzzle itself is present enough, really. Pretty cool stuff, no? [Arduiniana via Make]

Created with direct input—tons of music, artwork and story advice—from the man himself, “Hi, How Are You” is a 3D, cell-shaded platformer with tilt controls. As with virtually everything Johnston has created in the last two decades, it’s surreal, a little childlike and tinged with religious imagery, but it’s far from sloppy: Johnston’s teamed with some serious developers to make a game that is genuinely playable, even if it’s often inexplicable. “Hi, How Are You” is $1.19, available now. [iTunes]

Granted, this thing is milled from a solid block of metal and “precisely engineered for smooth mechanical manipulation”, so it should be well made. But $US120? That’s a little too much for me to be spending on something I will get frustrated with inside 30 minutes and never pick up again. However, if you are up to the challenge, the Revomaze comes in three separate versions based on difficulty and requires users to navigate “an internal labyrinth full of dead ends, traps, and one way paths” in order to remove the metal core and solve the puzzle.

If you succeed, a code will be imprinted on the core that you can register on the manufacturer’s website. Winners that appear on the leaderboard will be invited to participate in a live competition with thousands of dollars in prizes at stake. Yeah, good luck with that. [ThinkGeek via The Automata Blog via BBG]

Bram Cohen, known as the dude who allowed you to download cams of shit movies you don’t want to pay for, has created Bram’s Cube. It’s basically like a Rubik’s Cube, but it has gears inside that add another layer of difficulty. So much difficulty that I wouldn’t even want to attempt this thing. It just looks too frustrating for words. But hey, if you’re a glutton for punishment and feel the need to be taken down a peg or two, go for it. [Shapeways via Today's Big Thing]

“Mnemosyne,” in Greek mythology, is the personification of memory, which you of course did not know, and that’s why you’ll never be able to afford this USB drive. We sort of understand the impulse to create a physical barrier to accessing data, but one of the many things about this product that’s puzzling is that reassembling the puzzle is just as difficult as unravelling it in the first place.

Mnemosyne wants to emphasise the “value of memory,” so maybe the value of money doesn’t really show up on their radar. [Mnemosyne via Crunchgear]

The Rubik’s Cube is a classic puzzle, one that’s tough to improve upon. This electronic version tries, but it doesn’t look like it succeeds on adding much value to the original.

Rather than twisting the sides around, on this version you push buttons and have the lights move. How unnecessary! What this does add is 5 additional games, so if you’ve ever thought that the Rubik’s Cube could use that, here you go. Only $US63! What a deal! [Boy's Stuff via Foolish Gadgets]