Man Solves Three Rubik’s Cubes While Juggling

Solving a Rubik’s cube on a normal day is pretty difficult for the average person. No matter how hard the majority of us try to get all of the colors in their proper places, we end up removing the colored stickers and placing them all in their proper places. Being able to solve a Rubik’s cube is so easy for some people, they’ll go ahead and add something else in addition in order to slightly challenge themselves. This guy, though, is a complete nut as he attempts to solve three Rubik’s cubes while juggling.

No – he’s not juggling something and solving Rubik’s cubes between throws. He is juggling the Rubik’s cubes he is attempting to solve. So not only does he have to worry about the entire juggling process, which already can be mind-glowingly difficult, but he also proceeds to solve three separate Rubik’s cubes. The level of difficulty behind this trick is amazing, which is why he is surrounded by a small group of people who are probably as amazed as I was watching this video.

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University of Calgary’s Fat Thumb trick allows one-handed phone use, jugglers are thankful (video)

University of Calgary researchers devise Fat Thumb trick for onehanded phone use, jugglers are thankful video

Everyone’s let it happen at some point — that moment where we’re desperately trying to use our smartphones in one hand while juggling groceries or coffee in the other. There’ll be no way to recover those social graces, but six researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a software technique, Fat Thumb, that should at least keep the contortions and dropped phones to a minimum. As the name implies, it’s all based around pressure: a light touch performs the usual commands, while squishing the thumb’s wider surface area against the screen allows the equivalent of a multi-touch gesture, such as a pinch to zoom. The advantages for comfort and grip virtually speak for themselves; what’s surprising is that Fat Thumb may well be faster than other one-handed gestures. Work on the project is so far confined to a research paper stemming from experiments with an iPhone, although it’s easy to see this spreading to other platforms and real products before too long. Catch a glimpse of the cleverness in action after the break.

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