Using 3D printing technology, puzzle-maker Oskar van Deventer managed to create this insanely complex version of the cube.  Oskar assembled the cube from 1539 individually dyed pieces, resulting in this oversize 5.5″ cube. I can’t imagine how anyone could solve this thing, but now that it actually exists, where there’s a will there’s a way, right? I guess there’s the possibility that Oskar could could spend the next few years of his life trying to sort it out.

And since the design has actually been turned into a digital format, you can print one for yourself – for the low, low price of $2006.54 (USD). Unless I can rearrange the stickers to solve it, no thanks.

[via Shapeways via adafruit industries]

Created by illustrator/designer Eric Pautz, the Rubik’s Lamp is composed of 26 interlocking colored cubes which can be rotated into an almost limitless array of color combinations.

By rotating the cubes, the lamp can produce forty-three trillion unique color patterns. Cool. I don’t even think I can count that high… 1… 2… 3… 4… eleventy… um, nope.

Now on to the bad news. Turns out that the Rubik’s Lamp is only a concept design, and has yet to be produced. From the looks of the colored acrylic panel design, it seems to me like something that someone over at fabrication-on-demand shop Ponoko should be able to bring to life. Eric, are you listening?

This Rubik’s-inspired clock takes the basic design concept of the classic cube puzzler, and turns it into an LCD digital alarm clock. Rest assured, that you’ll never get all the colors lined up on the proper sides of this cube, as only the top row rotates letting you switch between the time, calendar, alarm and temperature modes.

So when you’re ready to go back to the 80′s, swing on over to Perpetual Kid and grab one for just $19.99.

While it’s designed as a platform, capable of playing a number of different games and puzzles, the interactive plaything happens to do a great job digitally emulating the old Rubik’s Cube.

The digital puzzle’s 216 mulit-colored LEDs are controlled by touch-sensitive panels and 3D motion accelerometer circuits (like the ones found in the Nintendo Wii).

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Fentem says his Cube will be available in limited quanties from the UK’s Kinetica electronic art museum in the near future.

[via Engadget]

EastsheenCubes take multiple mini-cubes and join them together to form one crazy looking version of the classic mindbender. With the cubes intersecting one another, I’m betting that complicates things just a little bit.

Available from Japan’s Cataloger, the 2x2x2 version is ¥840(~$7 USD,) the 2x2x3 one costs ¥1,260 (~$11 USD), and the 2x2x 4 cube puzzle is ¥1,680 (~$14 USD.)

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I dare Michel Gondry to solve one of these with his feet!

The miniature 2×2 Cube is just one example of the kind of ridiculous stuff that people attach to their cell phones in Japan. Online mega-mall Rakuten has these mini-cubes for just ¥320 (which is just about $2.50 USD.)

[via TOKYOMANGO]

These Irregular IQ Cube puzzles might just blow your head off. Somehow, you’ll need to figure out how to get all of these oddly-shaped, color-coded pieces to form a proper cube.

A set of two puzzles is just $7.90, so pick up a couple and let me know how long it takes for you to solve one. Hint: The solution does not include throwing the puzzle against the wall and watching it shatter into a bunch of pieces.