Rubik's Cube sightings in media

Yesterday on SBS6 (A dutch channel) in the TV show Wedden Dat Ik Het Kan (the dutch version of Wanna Bet and Wetten Das) Joris Mühlsteff and I raced OH
I am ashamed for my incredibly low speed, but if I don't post it I bet someone else will.

Goodbye dignity
 
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Cheese11 said:
Why homeschool? I was going to be homeschooled but I liked having my friends around.
(It's also eaiser to get help)
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lol saying homeschoolers dont have friends around is redic. maybe you dont see your friends every day, but its not like your socially stranded on an island. hahaha. :P theres such things as homeschool groups. *cough cough*

collinbxyz said:
Yaay! I love Good Eats :)
I watched it a lot when I was homeschooled last year. A little off topic, but I'm trying to convince my mom to homeschool me again after the holiday break...
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good luck, bro, hope you convince her.
 
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Dunno if this really counts, but the poster for Cabin in the Woods, coming out in 2012 has a Rubik's cube-house:
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Backstory: I was on another forum, and I saw this video on the side. I was in a Skype call, and commented that the person in the thumbnail looked like Tim Reynolds (the thumbnail was very small). I never bothered to click on it because I never thought it would actually be him. I was on the forum again, and decided to actually click it, and lo and behold, it actually was him.
 
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JyH said:

Backstory: I was on another forum, and I saw this video on the side. I was in a Skype call, and commented that the person in the thumbnail looked like Tim Reynolds (the thumbnail was very small). I never bothered to click on it because I never thought it would actually be him. I was on the forum again, and decided to actually click it, and lo and behold, it actually was him.
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People who specilise on steps?
I happened to first learn on that site
 
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facinating article. The writer tried really hard, but couldn't avoid mistakes in just about every point. Still would be interesting to see what Rubik's could do. If they made their standard cubes better maybe it would increase the popularity of cubing.
 
That article about Chinese cubes surprises me. As a relative newbie, I always thought that those cubes were perfectly legal. Especially as Seventowns sponsors and sometimes even helps organising speedcubing competitions were almost everybody is using Chinese cubes. David Hedley-Jones is even a WCA delegate.
 
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That article about Chinese cubes surprises me. As a relative newbie, I always thought that those cubes were perfectly legal. Especially as Seventowns sponsors and sometimes even helps organising speedcubing competitions were almost everybody is using Chinese cubes. David Hedley-Jones is even a WCA delegate.
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I believe they are perfectly legal. Seven Towns chooses to disagree. As it turns out, it doesn't really matter what I believe or what Seven Towns believes; what matters is what is decided in courts on a case-by-case basis. Can Seven Towns really use copyright and trademark for what they try to use them for to protect the cube? It depends on what courts decide.

I don't know of any legal battles Seven Towns has ever lost on the issue. But then again, it seems to me that they've picked their battles rather carefully; I have a feeling there are plenty of cases they could have tried to bring that they would lose. I can't imagine Seven Towns ever sweeping through a WCA World Championship and seizing the Chinese cubes there; it would generate terrible publicity and probably wind up being a loss in court for them. Seven Towns has to walk a line between maintaining some control over their product and yet maintaining good publicity. Based on their success at still selling many Rubik's Cubes in stores these days, I'd say they're actually doing a pretty successful job of it. By letting the Chinese companies produce cubes that we can use for our special purpose (speedcubing), but taking steps to prevent them being sold in brick and mortar stores, they get good publicity from us, but still get the bulk of the casual sales in places like Wal-Mart and Toys-R-Us.
 
I don't see why it wouldn't be legal.

If Rubik invented the Car, does that make anybody who makes a car that doesn't have his name on it illegally making cars?

Or in the the Social Network, Mark says "A guy who builds a cool chair doesn't owe money to anybody who ever made a chair."

Rubiks invented a toy, they made a better version of it.

Rubik still got all the publicity for the cube and its the best sold toy in the world. If I was them, I would not be complaining that a group of people actually interested in the speed aspect were buying better versions of the cube in order to actually be able to solve the cube with speed.


However, this thread isn't really the place to discuss this, so I'll drop it.

And for the record, that first kid in the video with Tim Reynolds made me face palm, "You do the uhh... algorithms... and it does the pattern... and uhh... it solves it."
 
VillasLife magazine - Can your kid solve the Rubik's cube?

December 2011 issue cover story interview with Danyang Chen. Also with Dan Dzoan, Chris Hardwick and Feliks Zemdegs.
villaslife.cn
Too bad the translation isn't particularly good.
 
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