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Thanks to touchscreens and other input sensors, we’re finding more ways to integrate physical movement in electronic entertainment. The Princip Interactive LED Futuro Cube is another example. Its sensors work with the embedded LEDs to amuse – or frustrate – you in all sorts of ways.

The Future Cube has multi-axis accelerometers, 56 LEDs and a speaker. The accelerometers enable it to detect gravity, motion and tapping, the LEDs are there to, well, light up, and the cube provides feedback, tutorials and score through the speaker. The cube has 12 game modes, including Gravity Puzzle (similar to Rubik’s Cube but with tapping instead of rotating!), Snake (it slithers through all six sides!) and Cubris (Tetris, except it’s way more confusing!)

Here’s a quick demo of Gravity Puzzle:

Did you understand what was happening in that last video? Neither did I. All the more reason to get one of these toys. You can order the Princip Interactive LED Futuro Cube from ThinkGeek for $100 (USD).

Do you love puzzle games? If you have answered in the affirmative and want to keep up with the times, then you might want to gravitate towards the $99.99 Princip Interactive LED Futuro Cube. Sounds and looks as though it is something that hails from Hellraiser, no? Actually, the Princip Interactive LED Futuro Cube is, as its name suggests, a cube-based gaming platform that boggles the mind, or at least it does its best in doing so. We are looking at plenty of tech being packed into a diminutive package, which is no surprise in this day and age. In fact, it is said that all the puzzle games you would want to have are within, and good news for developers – a developer’s kit is arriving early this year.

Just to get a clearer picture on what the Princip Interactive LED Futuro Cube offers, it boasts of a clever combination of multi-axis accelerometers, haptic vibration feedback, wireless connectivity, 4-channel audio and 56 multi-color LEDs, all rolled into a handheld cube so that it will be able to deliver a unique gaming experience that is unlike any other on the market. The Futuro Cube is capable of sensing rotation, where tapping it on any side will provide feedback in the form of vibration, audio playback and the dynamic change of it’s LED colors. Assuming you want more of a challenge, then purchase two of these puppies, and they will interact together. Time to crack your brain for the year ahead, no?

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Playing around with ThinkGeek’s table full of toys was unquestionably a highlight of 2013 CES experience, which is (thankfully) nearly at an end. In amongst the always awesome licensed Star Trek and Star Wars toys was the Princip Interactive LED Futuro Cube, a strange game device created with ThinkGeek. The device brings to mind the Rubik’s Cube, if only because its a geometrical puzzle game. In place of colored squares are a series of different colored LED lights.

Like Rubik’s famous three-dimensional toy, the Futuro isn’t particularly easy to master. It has a menu system and offers up a series of audible commands to access its different games. Getting started takes a quick shake and it can be put to sleep with couple of taps. There’s also a USB port on one side for downloading software updates, including new games.

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Fans in the realm of science fiction, we play harbingers of good news today – delivering word that you can now bring the terror of early computing right to the comforts of your own home. Who knows, one of the $499.99 HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica could actually malfunction and be the malevolent ghost in the shell that scared the heck out of many all those years ago when they watched Space Odyssey? Touted to be the most accurate HAL 9000 replica ever created, it was constructed from the 1967 blueprints and image files.

The HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica might not usher the end of humanity, but what it does would no less send chills down the spines of those in the know. It can speak 15 different phrases, and respond to voice and most IR remotes, now how about that? The red LED eye will definitely be part of its physical make up, and it comes with a 2-minute auto-shutoff feature to save battery life.

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It was a little over a year ago that ThinkGeek gave folks a chance to add a bit of 2001 to their home with the IRIS 9000 iPhone dock, but it’s really gone the extra mile this year. The retailer has today announced its new HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica, a $500 device that’s said to be built using the original 1967 blueprints and image files. What’s more, while it isn’t exactly “fully functional,” it is able to respond to voice commands and most IR remotes with a variety of suitably unsettling phrases (yes, including a rendition of “Daisy Bell”). The downside is that it will set you back considerably more than the $60 of its smaller counterpart — ThinkGeek is asking a full $500 for this conversation starter, each of which is “hand-assembled to make sure they are perfect.” Would-be purchasers can get a taste of what’s in store in the video after the break.

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