Rubik's Touch Cube - One of "Hottest Holiday Toys"

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I was looking at some stuff on Yahoo and I came across this....
http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/272/hottest-holiday-toys/

Hottest Holiday Toys
With budgets tight, families will be loading up on low-priced fashion dolls, action figures and fake pets.
By Tom Van Riper

With budgets tight, this year's hot holiday toy list is filled with cheap, basic fun stuff for kids. High-tech gadgetry is out, action figures, fashion dolls and fake pets are in.

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Rubiks Touch Cube, TechnoSource, $149.99

An updated electronic version of '80s classic. Instead of twisting, a player swipes a finger across the squares to reach the next sequence. Feeling stuck? The Touch Cube will even give hints for the next move.
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One of the hottest toys XD I mean seriously? Who would buy this toy for $150, when you can get something very similar for like $10.
 
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I'm sorry touch cube, but 1-move hints won't do. How about throwing in a 'G perm c, AUF' vocal command? I'm talking algorithms, after I finish OLL I'm not sure how the R face glowing is going to help me. =/


:P
 
1) Half the people I know thinks I'll love that and send me every link on it they come across since I love the cube and am in IT (therefore into everything electronic), yet I have zero desire for it.

2) My lord that carousel of videos on the cube's website sucks - was driving me NUTS trying to pick videos to watch.
 
Like I said once before, it would be nice if I could push the scramble button, memorize the cube, push a "BLD" button to turn off the lights, then touch solve it. When solved it should say "TA-DAH! Wow, you DID it! It took you xx:xx to memorize and xx:xx to execute, for a total of xx:xx! That's just 12 seconds more than your personal best, Bob!"
 
Edmund said:
Is it Rubik's? Because the box looked like it said that but I did not see anything on rubiks.com.
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It's by Techno Source, they made the Rubik's Revolution too. Rubik's actually isn't a manufacturing company, just really a brand name. The Rubik's Cube is made from Winning Moves and 7 Towns I think.
 
Rubik's Cube Fan said:
Edmund said:
Is it Rubik's? Because the box looked like it said that but I did not see anything on rubiks.com.
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It's by Techno Source, they made the Rubik's Revolution too. Rubik's actually isn't a manufacturing company, just really a brand name. The Rubik's Cube is made from Winning Moves and 7 Towns I think.
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Thanks. Do you know if Rubik's will sell this through their website like they did with the revolution?
 
lol, when I first saw the Rubik's Revolution I thought it was a void cube. :p

But yeah, $150 is wayyyy too expensive. Plus, I've heard that it is pretty glitchy. I've also heard that it only senses the top face, which is why it has the built-in accelerometer. In the videos it looks really slow too. :p

What they should have done is have screens instead of LEDs, so you could do bigger cubes. It would also be pretty cool if you could connect it to your computer and add images to make it a supercube. :D
 
Gollum999 said:
lol, when I first saw the Rubik's Revolution I thought it was a void cube. :p

But yeah, $150 is wayyyy too expensive. Plus, I've heard that it is pretty glitchy. I've also heard that it only senses the top face, which is why it has the built-in accelerometer. In the videos it looks really slow too. :p

What they should have done is have screens instead of LEDs, so you could do bigger cubes. It would also be pretty cool if you could connect it to your computer and add images to make it a supercube. :D
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Great ideas! Those additions may have given me a reason to accept it's existance!
 
rjohnson_8ball said:
Like I said once before, it would be nice if I could push the scramble button, memorize the cube, push a "BLD" button to turn off the lights, then touch solve it.
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Gollum999 said:
Plus, I've heard that it is pretty glitchy. I've also heard that it only senses the top face, which is why it has the built-in accelerometer.
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"Glitchy" is an understatement. Unless you practice quite a bit to give it just the right swipe, it's miserable. Imagine typing on an iPhone that doesn't recognize 50% of your keystrokes, and gets a further 20% wrong. That's how it feels at first, and I don't think I should need to blame myself for being unable to handle it.

In contrast, the accelerometer actually works quite well. It is a rather cool thing, and I'd love to have won one, but seriously, I expect more before it fulfills its claims.
 
the charm of the cube is it's elegance and simplicity. this thing is expensive and completely losses the bulk of what makes a 10 dollar toy wonderful. there is a reason
 
I absolutely hate it. I think this is a perfect example of new technology being used in a very bad way.

Long live the original Rubik's Cube! Nothing will ever beat it!
 
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