Brando adds one more product to the near-infinite variety of USB hubs with its USB Twister Hub, a four-port USB 2.0 expander with Rubik’s Cube-like modules that twist to your bidding. It’s $26.

This is mildly amusing-looking, but not so cute as I could be when it really looked like a Rubik’s Cube. Although now you are able to rotate each USB port you have always enough space for your USB devices. Happy Puzzling!

Product Page [Brando] | Via Gizmodo

Tags: Rubik’s Cube | USB

Via Gizmodo I found these lovely Illuminated Rubik’s Cube Speaker System.

Just plug this 110 mm-tall (4 inch) decorative puzzle into your iPod and watch the 27 light patterns sparkle to the beat. Or, if silence is your preferred modality, you can simply watch it glow.

The speakers will be released only in Japan end of October. No specs are available yet and will cost 5000 yen (US$ 45). Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Rubik’s Cube | Speakers | iPod | Illuminate

At speedcubing.com I read about a new version of a robot called RuBot II which solves Rubik’s Cube. Solving Rubik’s Cube is one thing, but building a real looking robot solving Rubik’s Cube is really something else.

RuBot II has been built by Pete Redmond from Dublin in Ireland. It has to be the coolest looking robot solver ever with sound and music. There are cameras in the eyes of the head that scan the cube before the pneumatic arms solve it. It usually solves the Cube in a max of about 50 seconds (not including [Read More...]

GANPuzzle.com announces its latest software offering, Rubik’s Cube Tutor for Absolute Beginner which trains a beginner as young as ten year-old how to solve the Rubik’s Cube using just three simple tricks, sufficient to solve the very difficult puzzle.

This software is designed to win over millions of frustrated Rubik’s Cube owners and a new generation of youngsters who have never touched a Rubik’s Cube. It teaches a solution which is easy to learn and intuitive.

Learning how to solve the Rubik’s Cube has never been easier: simply complete the 3 tutorials (each with 11 drills) and become [Read More...]

Rubik’s cube was my first puzzle as just like me almost everybody had one in the eighties.

Though there have been numerous follow-up puzzles to Erno Rubik’s cube, there is now also a very luxury version available.

Featuring a chrome frame and inlaid richly-dyed calfskin color cubes, this update was developed by Geoffrey Parker, a British manufacturer of luxury games.

A perfect gift for the geek-turned-executive, the heavy chrome skeleton and beautiful leather inlays are sure to compliment the furniture in any corner office. [Via popgadget]. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Rubik’s Cube

Visitors to the Science Museum in west London can expect to find mentally challenging games and memory-enhancing tips.

Experts from the Alzheimer’s Society, King’s College London and the Forget Me Not Centre, which cares for people with dementia, will also be there. It will take place at the museum’s Dana Centre on Tuesday evening.

More information at BBC

Tags: Rubik’s | Sudoku | Alzheimer

Do you still remember the Rubik’s cube? elogIQ’s Cmetrick Puzzle looks much like Rubik’s Clock.

Cmetrick is a puzzle that has nine colored balls in a 3×3 square. As you move the columns or rows of balls, the colored faces get scrambled! The goal is to develop an algorithm for bringing the puzzle from any scrambled configuration to its “Initial Configuration” (IC), in which all spheres are positioned in the same orientation. In the IC, the same color shows on top, right, left, front, back, and bottom of all spheres. [Read More...]