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Ready for a challenging puzzle? Check out this new variant on the classic Rubik’s Cube which isn’t comfortable just being perfectly square.

The new Rubik’s Mirror Blocks puzzle makes things a bit more complicated than the original by making each and every one of its blocks a slightly different size.

And instead of pretty colors, each one is covered with a mirrored surface, making it just that much more difficult to figure out.

I managed to find a video clip showing the unboxing of the new cube here:

The puzzle is slated for release in Japan in the next couple of weeks for ¥2079 (appx $20 USD), but I haven’t been able to find out anything about a North American release. Perhaps if you’re persuasive, you can convince the puzzle’s designer, Hidetoshi Takeji to ship you one. He was recently sighted on the TwistyPuzzles forums offering to ship them internationally.

[via Digital Gadgets Freak]

Think you know pandas? Well, think again. A new book from Square Peg publishers reveals a raft of unexpected facts about the lovable black-and white bears...

For example, did you know that if a panda gets struck by lightning, its black hair turns white and its white hair black? A spread from the book shown above reveals this affliction. These bears are known to pandologists as negative pandas.

Another fact revealed by the book is that at the height of the cold war, American Special Forces deployed six robot pandas equipped with advanced surveillance equipment into the forest of eastern China to spy on rural military bases (image of one of the robot pandas shown above). Apparently half of these robo-bears were shot by commercial poachers in the first week of deployment. The others were adopted by a cupboard of real pandas, and based on readings from tracking devices, were still roaming the forests until their batteries wore out in 1998.

Pandas have no fingerprints. This is believed to be why they are used as accomplices in many jewel and bank robberies. International law enforcement agencies arrest around 700 pandas every year.

Despite this bad reputation, until 1982 it was legal for infertile couples in Great Britain to formally adopt pandas. The spread above shows Mimi Laurence at home with her son Jeff.

The book also offers advice in the event of a panda attack. As the images above show, the following procedure should be followed: 1. Wrap the animal's torso in a towel or blanket so its front legs are bound to its body. 2. Slap it hard across the face. 3. Deliver the animal to the authorities.

for fall of 2010..Jimmy Choo and H&M is doing shoes together..

i gotta say..i'm not the biggest fan of Jimmy, because those shoes are even impossible to stand in let alone walk..and the price tag is for people who shit money...

so this may help a bit