Rubik's Cube sightings in media

[badmephisto]

To my surprise I found cubes in the biggest Toronto newspaper today (Metro), on page #2. Millions of people here read it. Thats the exposure that we need!
pic:
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/842/metrocubeee7.jpg

It got me wondering about exactly how much exposure it is getting elsewhere. Did anyone see it in the media recently? I wish we had a thread dedicated just for this. It is exciting and interesting to see whats written about us, the "speed cubers".

 

[van21691]

wow, but Philippine is even better because during the Rubik's Cube Philippine Open 2007, there was a media recording the competition and then later broadcast it. A lot of tv appearance getting a lot of attentions to all filipinos. Wow.

 

[ajmorgan25]

Haven't had much media exposure in my area. Alabama*

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Wow that's cool!

Not exactly the same, but i managed to get my cube into South Africa's biggest IT mag. I write for PCFormat here, so i pushed my cube into one of the photos

 

[pcharles93]

Hopefully, people are smart enough to realize that is a puzzle and not a stand for the plastic you're working with.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Hopefully, people are smart enough to realize that is a puzzle and not a stand for the plastic you're working with.

Well anyone who doesn't have the common sense to realize THAT, will never be able to solve a cube anyway

 

[genwin]

maybe the speedcubers here can come up with a "record" attempt on the next world championships.. hopefully the media can cover some of that..(guiness record??)

i don't watch a lot of ESPN but i have seen speedstacking a couple of times but never a speedcubing event...True??

 

[jonny guitar]

Not speedcubing but there is a commmercial on TV right now with some lady designer her loft and turning a rubiks cube with pictures of her fancy pad on it.

 

[DavidWoner]

about a month ago there was a 1-minute spot on the 9 o clock news about speedcubing competitions.

"some even get times under 45 seconds."
*scoffs* *walks away from tv* *considers calling station to complain* *decides to go cube some more instead*

 

[CAT13]

Nothing much, but on George Lopez, he commented on his friend's cube with one side completed

 

[pcharles93]

I just watched that episode a few minutes ago.

 

[pjk]

There was a clue on Jeopardy yesterday that said:
"This world famous cube puzzle was made by a Hungarian"

It was only a $400 clue. This is the second time I've seen a Rubik's clue on Jeopardy. The other one was a couple months after Leyan Lo broke the WR, and it said something like "Leyan Lo solved this puzzle in 11.13 seconds as a new WR".

 

[immortalcube]

Hey, I watched Jeopardy last night and saw that too!

 

[Theron Rabe]

Well, there was a recent article in the local newspaper about the Minnesota Open. Apart from that, I don't think I've seen much of anything.

It's nice to see that it's at least getting a little media coverage, though!

 

[JBCM627]

the Cincinnati Open had a short news blurb on Fox 19... I can send this to someone if they want to put it on youtube (I don't have an account)

 

[cpt.Justice]

Its already on this forum, lurk moar

Edit: Ooops, that was the Armonk open

 

[CAT13]

Jim, can you send it to me? I saw the camera at the competition but never got to see what they did with it. I will probably put it on my youtube account.

 

[pcharles93]

I too would like to see the news footage of the Cincinnati Open

 

[ooveehoo]

There's a solved cube on angry video game nerd's tv here! Maybe he's a speedcuber too

 

[StachuK1992]

it's at 6:41(the cube)
would hve been nice if you told us, lol