NeoCube

Pretty interesting an artefact, this NeoCube, or should I say artefacts, since it is composed of 216 smaller magnets. Considering this could have been made already back in the 1930s it makes you wonder why such a product gets released only just now. It does have a little bit of a pseudo science-fiction flavour to it, and it's interesting that it seems to follow the simple but more and more ubiquitous idea of having many simple elements make up something more than the sum of its parts.

Seeing the NeoCube in action can be quite inspiring if you relate it to the way products could become reconfigurable by the end-user, or could be calmly self-reconfiguring based on how its user interacts with it.

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