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Touch technology reaches Rubik’s Cube

By Team Diginews4u ⋅ February 13, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Rubik’s Cube has gone ‘touch’ with the introduction of Rubik’s TouchCube, an electronic solvable Cube.

Rubik’s TouchCube utilises the latest in touch and motion technologies and will make its debut in New York City next week at the American International Toy Fair, 15-18 February.

The cube features touch sensor technology on all six sides, a motion-detecting accelerometer, and coloured lights in every square.

It mimics the movements of the original 3×3 Cube—swipe a finger across three squares and the lights will follow, ‘turning’ a side of the Cube; make an ‘L’ shape to turn the top face of the Cube a quarter turn.

The cube’s motion-detecting accelerometer only recognises moves made on the top side of the cube, so that a player’s fingers will not move the lights on other sides when holding it

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