"It takes about a month to break in a brand-new Rubik's Cube, " said 23-year-old Australian Tim McMahon.
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Steal your kids' toys: There's a new version of that Rubik's Cube that you loved as kid.
"The Rubik's Cube provides balance in the toy box, " explains Adrienne Citrin, speaking for the Toy Industry Association.
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Mr. Dickman, 15, was consumed with solving Rubik's Cube puzzles or by spending hours a day playing videogames.
For a time he wrote a mathematics column in Scientific American from which you could learn things like the theory of the Rubik's Cube.
Labour-controlled Corby Borough Council's Cube complex was built in November 2010 and is home to the town's theatre, library, register office and council offices.
In a pivotal scene from The Pursuit of Happyness Will Smith's character solves a Rubik's Cube in front of a brokerage executive stumped by the puzzle.
FORBES: That 1980s puzzle fad is back. No batteries required.
And on February 7th Alcatel-Lucent unveiled technology that reduces the size of a wireless base station from a filing cabinet's to that of a Rubik's cube.
But Mindstorms fans--most of them well past childhood--have blown past that promise to make thousands of automatons: discus throwers, bartenders, maze explorers, Rubik's Cube solvers and more.
The Rubik's Cube--that maddening twistable puzzle that requires mental and digital dexterity to twist and turn bands on a cube until each side is a solid color--is making a comeback.
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And just for fun, we brought you the world's largest Rubik's Cube mosaic -- which stands over 13 feet high by 200 feet wide and is made from 85, 794 cubes.
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The finished product is expected to be about the same size as a Rubik's cube and, said its creators, would let owners get at its innards to make their own modifications and write their own games.
We particularly liked the ease of use of Keynote's chart and table tools, which work within the application, and its transition effects, both for moving between slides and for introducing elements within an individual slide--though overuse may eventually make us as tired of Keynote's revolving cube transitions as we are of PowerPoint's wipes.
She says the end result, a simple tree with oversized star silhouettes, could just as easily sit in London's White Cube Gallery as in her living room.
Their latest figure for all the gold in the world is 171, 300 tonnes - which is almost exactly the same as the amount in our super-villain's imaginary cube.
The only pic of the casing we have is the promo image shown above which hints at a replica of Nick Fury's Cosmic Cube suitcase from the movie, but more information is promised to be revealed July 15th.
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He did not always get it right the first time, either--the first Mac lacked enough memory, was a commercial failure and led not only to layoffs but to Jobs' own ouster in 1985. 2000's PowerMacG4 Cube was also a high-priced flop.
Like the chassis, the Qube's interface also features a rotating cube, but that's pretty much the only thing special about it so far.
Mint's solution is a cube that projects infrared spots onto the ceiling, which the robot uses to pinpoint its location.
An early review of Digital-Cube's iStation i2 (value-pack, so no GPS) we told you about has been posted by tipster Joel Burslem in Korea.
He did have some (initial) concern over sluggish startup times but these seem to have been addressed by a firmware update (v1.0.2) he found on Digital-Cube's Korean site.
Twenty-two pieces out of the 292-work series -- the largest by the artists to date -- are on display until 5 May at White Cube's 6, 000ft space in Hong Kong's Central district.
Last year's two unusual machines, the G4 Cube and the G4 dual-processor tower computer, failed to ignite enthusiasm.
Ideal Toys brought the cube to the U.S. in 1980 and sold 100 million of them in three years.
FORBES: That 1980s puzzle fad is back. No batteries required.
There are 4 billion ounces of gold in people's hands, enough to fill a cube 60 feet on a side.
Zappos Chief Executive Tony Hsieh sits in a cube in the company's Las Vegas headquarters, in full view of visitors who tour Zappos every day.
Fully clothed and wrapped in a sleeping bag, the man's body was frozen solid as an ice cube.
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