This $299 Rubik’s Cube swaps colored squares for LCD screens

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A idiosyncratic twists the Rubik’s WOWCube portion playing a mentation of Cut the Rope.

One of the astir iconic puzzle toys of the past 50 years has evolved to go a caller mode to play mobile games. First announced earlier this year, the Rubik’s WOWCube is simply a simpler 2×2 mentation of the puzzle that trades colored squares for 24 tiny colour LCD displays. It inactive rotates similar a accepted Rubik’s Cube, but alternatively of aligning colored squares those mechanics are utilized to play mobile games specified arsenic guiding a contention car to the decorativeness enactment by lining up way pieces scattered crossed its assorted screens.

Cubios debuted an earlier mentation of the WOWCube a fewer years ago, but successful 2024 the company announced a collaboration with Spin Master, which had acquired the Rubik’s marque successful aboriginal 2021, for an officially licensed mentation of the device. It’s present finally disposable for preorder for a steep $299, with shipping expected up of the holidays this year. Battery beingness is claimed to beryllium up to 5 hours, and the WOWCube comes with a proprietary charger.

A idiosyncratic spins the Rubik’s WOWCube portion playing a racing game.

In summation to being capable to rotate the 24 screens, the WOWCube features sensors allowing games to beryllium played by tilting the full cube, shaking, oregon tapping it. Through a mobile app you person entree to the WOWCube’s app store which includes a premix of escaped and paid titles that are sent to the instrumentality wirelessly implicit Bluetooth. Cubios besides offers an SDK for developers wanting to marque their ain apps oregon games.

A mentation of Cut the Rope being played connected the Rubik’s WOWCube.

The enactment isn’t anyplace adjacent arsenic expansive arsenic what you’ll find connected Apple oregon Google’s app stores, but it includes versions of fashionable games similar Space Invaders, 2048, and Cut the Rope that person been customized with unsocial gameplay for the WOWCube. There are besides productivity apps similar timers, screensavers that make tiny aquariums, and widgets that tin show the weather, upcoming appointments, and adjacent banal prices.

And yes, the WOWCube tin adjacent relation similar a accepted Rubik’s Cube. Should you neglect to lick it connected your own, alternatively of having to peel and reposition stickers to realign the colored squares, you tin conscionable reset it.