After a somewhat prolonged discussion with two people (via PM) in the LoR chat-room, I decided to post this, finally. Hope all of you enjoy this. Several hours ago, I encountered this puzzle (initially from YouTube, as you will see). It is a magnetic puzzle composed of several hundred extremely powerful rare-Earth neobdymium magnets, each with a spherical shape, and the material has a highly distinctive tetragonal crystalline structure, and exceptionally high magnetic-coercivity. What appeals to my aesthetic sensibilities in this puzzle is not so much it's chemical properties, but the realisation of the nearly infinite (though nevertheless finite) combinatorial permutations of the puzzle, and it's malleability with which one can form almost any structure conceivable from them. All in all, it looks like an awful lot of fun!
If anyone is dying to have one,thankfully, NeoCube is available for purchase at this website: http://www.theneocube.com/ . There's even a large package (Omega) with a total of 1,027 spheres in total, for $105.95, or ,£68.46! I can confirm that I have ordered the "Cube Tastic" version, with 251 spheres, and a regular co-conversant of mine in the chat, C. Ebbesen; has ordered the original version (upon me showing it to him).
Enjoy!
- The NeoCube
If anyone is dying to have one,thankfully, NeoCube is available for purchase at this website: http://www.theneocube.com/ . There's even a large package (Omega) with a total of 1,027 spheres in total, for $105.95, or ,£68.46! I can confirm that I have ordered the "Cube Tastic" version, with 251 spheres, and a regular co-conversant of mine in the chat, C. Ebbesen; has ordered the original version (upon me showing it to him).
Enjoy!