Sweet.<p>Looks like the guy used my app PhoneFinger to create the demo video! <a href="http://wonderwarp.com/phonefinger" rel="nofollow">http://wonderwarp.com/phonefinger</a>
Should be "iPhone" in the title.<p>(I had visions of an automated answering service: "What is the color of the top of the upper left edge cube? Press 1 for red, 2 for green...")
Huh - use an iPhone app to solve a rubik's cube?<p>Why not just create an iPhone rubik's cube app that uses the accelerometer?<p>I'd prefer an intangible version!
Anybody else feel a little strange with all the references to "Rubik cube" instead of "Rubik's cube"?<p>I spent Christmas break about two years ago learning to solve a Rubik's cube. It took me about a week of practicing no more than an hour or two a day and I had it down. I've forgotten the last few steps now but I can still solve about 2/3 of the cube pretty easily. This strikes me as one of those moments where I realize that this my Rubik's cube strategy was totally a programmer solution.<p>1. "Neat puzzle, there's gotta be an algorithm I can apply to solve this."<p>2. Learn algorithm and gain 10 sexy points while solving it in front of your friends.<p>versus<p>1. Google for software to solve it for me.<p>or better yet:<p>1. Take off all the stickers<p>2. reapply to fit desired pattern or color-coordination
If I had thought of such an idea, I would have rejected it on the grounds of practicality: who needs Rubik solvers? Isn't the point of it to solve it yourself? And how popular are Rubik Cubes these days anyhow?<p>Would I have been wrong? Does this app appear to be headed for commercial success?
It can't be "genius" because I had the same idea independantly a few weeks ago (an iPhone photo-Rubik's-cube-solver).<p>(I was thinking of it taking two photos, each pointing at opposite corners of a cube and encompassing three sides).