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!

 

[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

 

[badmephisto]

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

Angry Video game nerd has some of the funniest videos I've seen on the internets. I watched this at work trying to contain my laughter while others stared at wtf was going on. Especially the last part where Batman shoves all the Joker games up Jokers crack oh man