Fentix Cube: If Rubik was smarter, had multi-touch
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Oct 19th 2007 5:24AM
posted Oct 19th 2007 5:24AM
Update: We just heard from Andrew, his cube also packs a "3D system of accelerometers for gesture sensing a la Wii."
I have got to get one of those..
Very cool looking! The only possible problem is if all the surfaces respond to touch playing a game on that might be pretty error-filled experience. Imagine grabbing sides by accident! I'd like to see how they account for that...
Just brilliant. Until the Olympicubes (.com) are released, which it seems they never will be, this is the closest we're all going to get to anything larger than a Professor Rubik (5x5x5), besides the Gabbasoft software, which I personally just cannot get accustomed to.
I bet these things are going to come at quite a cost, so it would be nice if somehow the software could be updated as little tweaks to make the cubes more usable are discovered over time.
Now excuse me while I go change my pants.
I think that they died...
http://www.olympicubes.com/
Goes to a page by "Webadvertisingcorp"
And when I do a google search for "Olympicubes" I get a bunch of forum posts...
When I do an image search to see this saught after puzzle, even in prototype form... I can't find a blasted thing?
Does this "Olympicube" even exist?
My apoligies, it's just http://www.olympicube.com/ (with no 's' at the end of 'cube').
But yeat, it does exist, just in prototype form. People who have been lucky enough to test them out say they turn like an absolutely dream. The videos are at the bottom of the page.
Yuck, sorry for all the spelling errs in my last comment, I typed it from my phone and it was quite arduous.
Now instead of peeling off the stickers, we'll have to hack the chip controlling the LED's. Same concept, but updated for the 21st century.
The kinetic surfaces (third item on his page). Look very cool as well. How do they do that?
*If Rubik WERE smarter
Subjunctive!
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure was is correct, it's not subjunctive because it isn't an ongoing statement, if Rubik, in the past when he created the cube at one specific point in time (not ongoing), was smarter.
Though I could be incorrect.
Is it the Fentix Cube or the Fetix?
I wish engadget would proof their articles. It's nice that it's a blog, but integrity and credibility should still be concerns.
It's Fentix for sure, where did you get Fetix from?
Must have been corrected.
"Developed by Andrew Fentem, the Fentix Cube" was 'Fetix'.
OK, now someone release a multitouch-enabled software cube for the iPhone: one finger to rotate a face, two to rotate the whole cube... :-)
Does anyone else remember this thing from Star Trek Voyager!? It was their verson of the rubik's cube, and 7-of-9 was the only one that solved it.
It should scramble the sides when you shake it, if it has the accelerometers.
two please.
i was psyched when i saw rubiks revolution but it turned out to be a cubical equivelent of 'bop it'
Yeah I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
The (incomplete) statement would be qualified with a present verb
e.g if Rubik was smarter, I would like cake
not: if Rubik was smarter, I would have liked cake
therefore the conditional verb (was) should be "were".
But who really cares.
Sorry, I meant to reply to your comment, Orionrecon, but i seem to have failed.
It's interesting and all, but nothing beat that tactile quality actual Rubiks cubes had. It was relaxing in a similar way to popping packaging bubblewrap.