i sooooooooooooooo want this for my cube.... omfg... omfg....

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD... check this out... i think it is like one of the COOLEST things to have at ur cube... i'm so getting one.... or 4!!!!! dang....

i stayed at my desk for lunch today and was reading articles from my favorite website: ign.com and came across this awesome thing...

Cube World

[Taken from an IGN blog]

if site updates start getting slow this week, you can blame our friends over at Radica. The company sent over a package of plug-and-play games for a holiday feature I’m planning to do for Gerry on the Gear channel, but along with those gadgets was a couple of “Cube World” packs. I’ve seen them in the SkyMall catalog on planes, and now they’re in my hands.

Remember the old Activision PC ‘game,’ Little Computer People? Imagine that, but in physical form. Each of these cubes houses an individual stick figure with a specific personality. You’ve got Handy, the guy good with tools; Mic, who digs music; Hans, bodybuilder; and Dusty, the clean freak. Individually, these things are nothing more than silly dot-matrix Tamagotchi creatures. You can watch them do specific animations, you can torment them by rotating the block – it has a gravity sensor inside that detects when the block is being turned, which will cause the little guy to fall on his ass when the wall becomes the floor.

But what’s really cool about these guys:



They have magnetic connectors on all four sides so you can create a “habitrail” of Cube Worlds. And they’ll all interact with each other. One guy will move from cube to cube, playing or fighting with his neighbor. As many as four of these little guys can jam into the same cube and have a little fun.

And depending on how you have them stacked, they’ll do arrangement-specific animations. I had them vertically arranged, and the bottom guy filled his cube up with water, climbed all the way up to the top cube, and did a high dive all the way back down. Crazy, and totally unexpected.

These things are silly, but at the same time they’re absolutely mesmerizing. They’ll just be doing their own thing, and you’ll just sit there and watch them have all the fun. It’s a shame that these things automatically turn off after four minutes of not being handled. Perhaps that’s a good thing…I haven’t been able to look away when the units are on.

The ones I have are “Series 2.” I may have to track down some Series 1 units just so I can get a real network of stick figure people going on my desk.