The Illuminate Cube: like Rubik on meth

by Thomas Ricker, posted Oct 11th 2006 at 9:43AM

Hooked on retro-kitsch, boy? You'll likey this Illuminate Cube from Megahouse then. Now it's no coincidence that this cube bears more than a passing resemblance to his similarly colored and sized bro' Rubik since The House owns the rights to said wunderkind in Japan. Unfortunately, this cube doesn't move, unless you mean the colored lights which do their best to keep time with the beat off any 3.5-mm attached audio source. Sure, it has a tiny 27-mm cone speaker integrated as well, but with a power rating of just 125mW x 2ch, why bother. Available at the end of the month in Japan for ¥5,250 or right around $44.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Household

Tags: illuminate cube, IlluminateCube, megahouse, rubik, rubix

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Michael Heinz @ Oct 11th 2006 10:35AM

Feh. That's no good.

Just look at the cube, it's not in a valid state - it has two red centers!

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Sojourn @ Oct 11th 2006 11:22AM

Actually, the one on the bottom looks orange, which would be okay. Granted, on a standard-issue Rubik's Cube, the red and orange cebters would be opposite one another . . .

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boynamedsue @ Oct 11th 2006 1:20PM

i love the cube. I wish this was actually a working game (don't care about roation, but a lighted cube would be awesome.0

It would open up so many more possibilitys, i'm at about a minute and 20 for my standard cube finishing time at this point, and i don't want to memorize anymore algorythms.

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Logical_thinker @ Oct 12th 2006 1:17AM

I want one just because I think it would look cool next to my desk, but $44 is too expensive for my taste considering the fact that it's only good for a decoration rather than a speaker. I'll get one if its around $25.

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blade740 @ Oct 13th 2006 8:27AM

Well, it's japanese, so maybe the color scheme is different.

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