http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/ Engadget Comments for Rubik's TouchCube splashes modern day onto timeless classic http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
If you turned one side a partial turn, you could pop a corner out. Then you could take the whole thing apart, and then put it back together.


I wonder if this will have a wireless charging base to charge it...]]>Feb 12th 2009 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
I could always find something else more enjoyable to do.]]>Feb 12th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
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Say how about an official Rubik's Cube App for the iPhone/G1? ]]>Feb 12th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
I'm thinking this one can be solved, once, with a hammer.]]>Feb 12th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
Actually no. There is no "one" solution. Solving it is based on pattern recognition. There's no single pattern of turns that always works.

The mathematics behind it is fairly simple and one can map it to basic matrix calculations. I've solved my original one a few times. It generally took me about 5 minutes (my first solution took nearly an hour because I was working out the equations), but I'm out of practice now.

Eventually, you start to memorize the patterns and it becomes less logic and thinking and more reflex - that's how you get down to sub-60 second solutions. You can teach anyone of average intelligence to work one out eventually, but that's no fun because the real intrigue, challenge, excitement, and gratification come from figuring it out on your own. Well, at least for us "egg heads".]]>Feb 12th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 14th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
And yet, the sad little sniper that you are, you failed to notice the semantics of Timmy's linguistics. He said "have the solution already", which is not "basically correct". It is singular in nature. The solutions for a Rubik's cube, on the other hand, are much like the cube itself - multifaceted. There are literally hundreds of ways in which the cube can be solved.

One could make the argument, of course, that those "solutions" all apply the same basic logic and formulae, and are thus one solution, only applied in different circumstances. However, one whom actually knew the mathematics behind it would refute this argument since there are actually multiple formulae that can be applied in any given circumstance - many of them equally efficient. So there is not even one "best" solution.

In the future, please do not argue out of your depth. Forum sniping is not only rude, it is annoying and makes you seem very childish. It also wastes the few seconds of my time it took to post this.]]>Feb 14th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
They've removed a good portion of the fun in my opinion.]]>Feb 12th 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
The 'touch' cube in 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4A_wfaScy4]]>Feb 12th 2009 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/]]>Feb 12th 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 12th 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/
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and yes there are other iPhone apps to simulate the Rubiks cube itself (e.g. xCube)

I prefer the original hardcopy version of the cube ]]>Feb 13th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/]]>Feb 13th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/rubiks-touchcube-splashes-modern-day-onto-timeless-classic/Feb 17th 2009 5:36PM