The Gear Cube is a brand new concept in cube design and has the following inventive steps. It uses a full gear mechanism that requires twelve 90° turns to complete one rotation. It was designed by M. Oskar van Deventer and inspired by a gearing idea by Bram Cohen. It is also known as the Caution Cube since the you could easily get hurt from the gears.
Source: Mefferts.com
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| Gear Cube |
A Gear Cube with four geared edges replaced with four non-geared edges. Oskar designed these edges independently from the Gear Cube to allow replacing the original edges without buying a new puzzle. The non-geared edges allow unconnected quarter turns on two faces, meaning that any gear can change position with any other gear. This makes it much harder than the original Gear Cube and it's probably harder than the original 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube as well. If on non-geared edge is held fixed in space its four moves make up a well defined group. In this case the configuration which side is turnable and which not does not change.
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| Gear Cube Extreme |
The Gear Shift is a puzzle made by Oskar van Deventer, based on the idea of Bram Cohen. The cube has eight corners, four big corners and four small corners. You can also pull apart the puzzle along any of the three axes so that the gears of two opposite faces become independent systems. In this way you can twist the four interlocked gears in any face independently of the rest.
Source: jaapsch.net and Mefferts.com
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| Gear Shift |
4. Gear Ball
This puzzle is a shape variant to the Gear Cube. Solving this puzzle would be similar to the solution of the Gear Cube. This puzzle was introduced in 2012. From what the reviews that I saw on YouTube, they say this is the smoothest puzzle ever.
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| Gear Ball |
Traiphum Prungtaengkit has the aim to modify every mass produced puzzle into the shape of a tetrahedron, preferably a pillowed one. In this case he started with a Gear Cube he purchased from Uwe Meffert himself while both were visiting the Rubiks Cube World Championship 2011 in Bangkok. The modification was made by truncating the puzzle and then filling the holes and gap with black modelling mass.
Source: TwistyPuzzle.com
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| Gear Mastermorphix |
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