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☆ Japan has made the world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube. And it actually works
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Chris Lau | Nodoka Katsura | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Tokyo CNN —Japanese toymaker MegaHouse has unveiled a miniature Rubik’s Cube — one so tiny that you might need a pair of tweezers to solve it. Each face of the cube, which is made from aluminum, measures about five millimeters (around 0.2 inches) across. “The 5-milimeter Rubik’s Cube is the result of the trinity of machines, cutting tools, and players’ passion,” said Kiyokazu Saito, president of Iriso Precision, the company brought in for the precision cutting, in a promotional video on the toymaker’s website. Guinness World Record confirmed the micro-cube as the world’s smallest rotating puzzle cube in August. The miniature cube in comparison to a standard one.

Persons: MegaHouse, “, ”, Kiyokazu Saito, Tony Fisher, Ernő Rubik, Max Park, Wang Yiheng, Luke Garrett, Aaron Huynh, China’s Du Yusheng Organizations: Tokyo CNN, Iriso, CNN, Guinness Locations: British, Long Beach , California, China

☆ The Rubik’s Cube Turns 50
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Siobhan Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A big math conference was underway and Dr. Rokicki, a retired programmer based in Palo Alto, Calif., had helped organize a two-day special session about “serious recreational mathematics” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube. Dr. Rokicki instead recommends the old-fashioned strategy: Set out on a lone path and discover a solving method, even if it takes weeks or months. (It took the computer scientist Donald Knuth less than 12 hours, starting at his dining table in the evening and working straight through to the morning.) Mr. Rubik said that, yes, he indeed did corners-first. Mr. Rubik, who is known to take a philosophical approach to cubology and to life in general, added: “My method was understanding.”‘Cubitus magikia’

Persons: Bright, Tomas Rokicki, Rokicki, Erno Rubik, Rubik, Erik Demaine, Robert Hearn, Mr, Donald Knuth Organizations: Moscone, YouTube Locations: downtown San Francisco, Palo Alto, Calif, videoconference, Spain, Hungarian, Portola Valley

☆ The Rubik's Cube turns 50: How a 3-by-3 grid captured hearts and market share
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube, holds one of the cubes at the International Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany, Jan. 29, 2020. It took a month of twisting and turning for the first person to solve a Rubik's Cube. That person was Erno Rubik, now 79, the iconic puzzle toy's creator. A source of pride, envy and frustration, the Rubik's Cube turns 50 this year and, under the ownership of Spin Master, it shows no signs of retirement. "Rubik's isn't just a toy," said Sam Susz, senior director of global marketing at Spin Master.

Persons: Erno Rubik, he'd, Rubik, Sam Susz Organizations: Fair, CNBC, Spin Locations: Nuremberg, Germany, Hungarian

☆ un australian de 19 ani a triumfat la Campionatul mondial de Cub Rubik 2015
▼ + stars: | 2015-07-20 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

(video) 5 secunde – un australian de 19 ani a triumfat la Campionatul mondial de Cub Rubik 2015Australianul Feliks Zemdegs, în vârstă de 19 ani, a câştigat finala ediţiei din 2015 a Campionatului mondial de Cub Rubik, organizată duminică, în oraşul brazilian Sao Paolo, informează MediafaxTânărul australian a rezolvat cubul Rubik într-un timp foarte bun – 5 secunde şi 695 de miimi de secundă -, realizând astfel o performanţă apropiată de recordul mondial (5 secunde şi 25 de sutimi de secundă) stabilit de americanul Collin Burns în aprilie 2015. În afară de versiunea 3x3x3, există alte trei tipuri de Cub Rubik (2x2x2, 4x4x4 şi 5x5x5). Iniţial, acesta a fost numit „Cubul Magic”, dar a fost rebotezat după numele inventatorului. Potrivit statisticilor, o persoană din şapte pe plan mondial a primit în dar sau a cumpărat un cub Rubik, o jucărie care stimulează imaginaţia, memoria şi capacitatea de sinteză. Potrivit site-ului oficial al acestei jucării, peste 350 de milioane de cuburi Rubik au fost vândute pe plan mondial.

Persons: Rubik, Sao Paolo, americanul Collin Burns, Feliks, Ernő Rubik Organizations: Mediafax, Rubik Locations: Sao

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