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Can You Solve Rubik’s Cubes While Juggling Them?

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4:30PM October 25, 2011 | Alex Kidman

I certainly can’t. But this guy can. Sure, there’s not much of an career in in-motion puzzle solving, but still, this is impressive stuff. More »


Entertainment

What Is This?

12:20AM June 9, 2011 | Casey Chan

A white Rubik’s cube? Square snow flakes? Some sort of stress ball? Not quite. The answer is a spoilerishly interesting theory for the upcoming movie Super 8. More »


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This Is The Fastest Rubik’s Cube-Solving Machine So Far

10:23AM June 1, 2011 | Davey Alba

At the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, a bunch of students just invented a machine called Ruby, which can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 10.69 seconds – the fastest ever for a robot. More »


Gadgets

A Rubik’s Cube For Brainiacs

4:00PM February 18, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Instead of matching up colours, this Rubik’s cube requires you to properly align brainfolds in order to solve the puzzle. It seems like it’d be hard to tell how much progress you were making however. Just thinking about it is making my own brain hurt. [Moist Production]


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Try And Solve This 17x17x17 Rubiks Cube If You Dare

6:00PM January 28, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Unofficially, this is the world’s largest cube puzzle. I get a headache just thinking about how one would go about solving this functioning 17x17x17 behemoth. If I actually tried solving this thing, I’d probably have a nervous breakdown. More »


Solving The Smallest Rubik’s Cube In The World

12:00AM October 14, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

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At 0.39 inches (10mm) this is the smallest Rubik Cube in the world and the smallest piece of the ’80s you can have in your hands – this side of Simon Le Bon’s fake eyelashes. More »


A Rubik’s Cube Can Always Be Solved In 20 Moves Or Less

11:00PM August 10, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Using 35 years of Google-donated CPU time, a team of researchers found that every possible configuration of the Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. Personally, I’ve almost got all the yellows on one side. More »


Rubik’s Cube Head: Puzzlingly Gross

10:40PM August 6, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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Had your breakfast yet? Might be best not to watch this man assemble his head on an empty stomach. Still, however disgusting, it’s one of the cooler effects I’ve seen in a while. More »


Magnetised Levitating Blocks Unite To Form A Customisable Rubik’s Cube Table

1:20PM July 29, 2010 | Christina Bonnington

It’s like Transformers and a Rubik’s Cube had a baby and it wanted to be a piece of furniture, but somewhere along the line it got magnetised so the pieces are doomed for all eternity to never touch one another. More »


Lego Android Robot Solves 7x7x7 Rubik Cube

2:40AM July 22, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

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The Rubik-cube-solving robot race continues. After the classic 3x3x3 cube and the 4x4x4 cube, here comes the Lego Mindstorms robot that can solve a 7x7x7, powered by an Android phone. We are headed to mass self-destruction, I tell you. More »