The art of the Rubik's Cube
You always knew there's an art to Rubik's Cubes, but it turns out there's more than you thought.
A mosaic made of 171 Rubik's Cubes
(Credit: Space-invaders.com)The street-art Space Invader folks, taking a break from surreptitious outdoor installations of vintage video-game mosaics, have branched out into using collections of Rubik's Cubes as an artistic medium.
They produced a number of simple Space Invaders mosaics, but more impressive are the larger photo mosaics--for example, the Clockwork Orange character made from a grid of 171 cubes. The phrase Stanley Rubikscubrik springs to mind.
A Sudoku cube
(Credit: find-me-a-gift.com)Meanwhile, for traditionalists, there are new advances in the Rubik's Cube brain-teaser crowd. This Sudocube Sudoku cube puts a new twist on the idea.
(Via John Nash at Adobe Systems and Gizmodo.)
Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank. 
