40 years later the Rubik's Cube becomes smart

Now the symbolic puzzle of the 80s connects to the smartphone. And we can also learn to solve it at last

GoCube: the new Rubik's Cube Sometimes they come back. Exactly 40 years after its launch in Europe, a spot on Facebook announces a digital and smart version of the Rubik's Cube. Not just a bit of a substitute for the famous puzzle, but a real cube, as plastic as the original and able to replicate itself as an avatar on your smartphone.

The 2020 version of the Rubik's Cube is called GoCube and its secret is a Bluetooth heart. When you launch your app, a virtual cube takes shape on the screen and synchronizes with what we have in our hands. Just rotate a face for the same to happen on the phone. Which allows us to immediately transform a solitary puzzle into a multiplayer game, with the cube becoming the joystick of itself. Projecting the cube with its disconnected faces in a virtual environment activates a software that leads us step by step towards the solution, making us black belts of a game that requires a certain dose of mathematical intelligence to be solved.

To invent the Cube, of the rest, was a mathematician, Erno Rubik , towards the half of years ’70 and one of his first fan club first saw the light at MIT in Boston . Only after you have won the nerd, the popular pastime turned into a symbol multicolor ’80s , also gaining a place in the MOMA in New York . They were published in dozens of versions, even bizarre, such as one in 1981, and over the faces of Prince Charles and Lady D , that they would be married that year. Then, like all cult objects, the cube, after dancing for a season, he ended up in the attic, to get out of it more or less every ten years, coinciding with the tenth anniversary. In 2000, at the halfway point of the 20, returned in vogue for a while thanks to word of mouth and the internet . And now that years have passed 40, here he was, version of the Internet of Things .

GoCube is available in two models , the basic (70 euro) and edge (80 euro). This gives you a tracking more accurate of the movements and the possibility to take part in online battles “without limits” . Both can be recharged with a usb cable, and, with respect to the original cube, are equipped with small magnets in the corners for easy movements. Once you have done the pairing with the smartphone, the app allows you to do different games and teaches how to maneuver the GoCube up to the solution. Once you become an expert, we can choose to compete against other players around the world or to challenge ourselves up to beat the record of records , which should be around seven seconds . On the instructions there is written how we must study to achieve this result. But committing ourselves seriously, perhaps we might make it for the next ten years. When the Cube will be, if anything, become a robot that can autorisolversi .