V-Cube 3 Officially Announced

A few posts ago I talked about the leaking of the V-Cube 3. The primary issue we all saw in the leak is that it was pillowed, meaning that it was not competition legal. The lesson I learned today is not to base all expectation off of just one leaked image. Today the V-Cube 3 was officially announced and there’s good news, there is a non-pillowed version too! They’re calling it the “flat version” and it looks like it’ll be competition legal. No specifications on dimensions yet but in images where it is pictured with the V-Cube 2, it looks like it is of average 3×3 size.

Furthermore Verdes is providing a DIY version of the V-Cube 3 flat and pillowed versions, this is great news for a few reasons: For one, the kit comes with two sets of stickers, three sets of springs, and two cores. Not only is that a great package, for any DIY, but the fact that they’re providing extra cores, could imply that they might open up a greater DIY line? DIY’s have almost always only ever come in the form of 3×3′s. Some people specifically mod the V-Cube 5 so that it has a DIY core, it would be very advantageous to Verdes if they simply supply a DIY version of the V-Cube 5.

I’m excited to see how it is; in white and black pillowed and flat, the preassembled is €15 and the DIY is €14 (with shipping one cube is ~$35 USD).  I ordered a black preassembled one mere moments ago (I’m assuming the preassembled is also adjustable) so expect a video review soon. Now when is the V-Cube 4 coming out?!

Source: V-Cubes.com

Tags: news, review, V-Cube
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New Asian 3×3 Continental Record

At 6.15 by Asia Konvittayayotin with a Dayan ZhanChi.  The solve was in the second round and overall Asia came in second in the competition overall behind Thailand’s most well known cuber Piti Pechidpan. Video:

The Continental Single Records Stand as Such:

1. 5.66 - Oceania
2. 6.15 – Asia
3. 6.41 - Europe
4. 6.93 - North America
5. 7.78 - South America
6. 11.00 – Africa

Source: WCA Results page

More: Reconstruction of Solve on Speedsolving.com

Tags: dayan, news, world record
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Dayan Color Scheme Infringes on Seven Towns Copyright

If you can copyright a black rectangle, it would only make sense that you can copyright a color scheme. Seven Towns the owner of the “Rubik’s Cube” brand notified Dayan, the maker of the notable cubes such as the GuHong and Zhanchi, that the color scheme violated Seven Towns’ copyright. That is blue opposite green, white opposite yellow, and red opposite orange. Dayan will be addressing this by changing orange to purple as the default color scheme of their cubes. The only good I see coming out of this is that people who use purple color schemes will be happy, and Cubesmith.com will see a large order increase of only orange stickers.

Source: Speedsolving.com thread

Tags: dayan, news, rubiks
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