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Hmm… something about it, that’s uh-…
Hmmm tungsten. I learnt fro Scrooge McDuck that tungsten has a remarkable value per weight, no joke, and i am paying attention.
In 2018, assuming the side length is around 170cm this would be about 19.25 tons/m³ × 5m³ × $30000/ton = $2,887,500
Also this would mean that the studio floor is carrying ~100 tons on that spot the cube occupied, pretty strong.
Best I can do is $30
You learned that from Duck Tales? That same rich duck only lied to me that it would be possible to dive into a pile of gold coins like water.
it was an older story but not sure if it was a specific ducktales episode. You can’t swim in gold, only Scrooge McDuck can. Even in the comics.
It happens in the new series too. Only one of the nephews manages to pick up the skill.
Gold coins slide off a duck’s back or something like that.
The app for this thing sucks tho
It will be unsupported in 6 months too.
Damn, they’re gonna brick my block just like that?
You just know it would have a subscription and always online requirement
If at any point, one is not met, it just phases out of existence
Don’t even get me started on the Alexa skill for this thing.
To save you doing the conversion, that’s 36.3kg.
What about stones?
What is that? Like 100 Budweiser’s?
Works out to about .56 Taylor Swifts.
Thanks, now could you convert that to American Standard lbs? /s
That’s about the weight of four, 20 lb bags of 9mm ammo
Wait I can’t count that high can we visualize it with how many schools you can shoot up with those?
Ah! Finally a metric I can understand!
I guess it’s partially hollow
That’s how I feel about airfryers when I already have a perfectly good convection oven.
Airfryers are just much faster to deal with smaller things. Less air to heat up before it reaches the desired temp.
Sometimes I use my oven for one thing and my air fryer for another thing at the same time.
In Texas, they just have two ovens stacked on top of each other.
I hope it doesn’t require a subscription or internet access
too bad. Mandatory Internet connection to enable the ai enhancement features, and as a bonus uses built in Infrared sensors to upload your walking habits straight to Palantir. Updates are 2gb each because what the hell are patches or deltas. Uses 24w on idle for some reason. Includes agentic ai!
The old version didn’t and some retailers still sell that.
We have found customers prefer the experience with the app! It is just the the experience without the app, but more modern. iOS only for now, but an Android version is expected soon!What? No AI?!
I can’t decide if I want to upvote for causing the visceral reaction to this comment, or down vote for the same.
I’ve been experiencing this dilemma a lot lately and I think we need a word for it.
Its not original but “appnauseum” comes to mind…
ios version for the steel cube experience requires liquid glass
Can I get it in red?
Yes, but if you have other red appliances, the shade of red won’t match.
Yes, but first you have to carry it through 19 puzzle chambers to test if you are qualified for cube ownership.
Cool! Does it have AI? Also I want it to connect to a phone app, do not bring me an actual program, or a website (I don’t understand what’s a “browser”, is it Google?), bring me an app! I’m fine with a subscription model, or if the cube starts leaking ooze onto the counter without it. It’s also fine if the cube is expected to leak ooze two years from now, because some server thingamajig is gone.
/s obviously.
80 pound only? At that size? What, is it filled with sand?
Probably cheaper than solid steel, enshittification strikes again
Deceptive marketing. The 80 lb model is the budget model, but the picture shows the much fancier 300 lb model.
Solid stainless steel at that weight would be roughly 17 cm per side (assuming a cube), depending on the exact alloy.
There’s no perfect reference scale, but the diagonal width of the cube is 60% the width of the drawer (by pixels). My kitchen drawer measures 40.5 cm, so the cube is some 24.5 cm across diagonally. A 17 cm cube would be just over 24 cm. I did a lot of rounding at every step, but it seems to check out pretty darn well.
Yeah, they switched production methods in the 90s to save on manufacturing costs.
Back in the 70s they were made from solid steel
Should be aluminum, way better at taking up space for its weight
That’d make it too easy to lift off the counter though!
It would be the same weight? But bulkier?
Yeah, but what attachments does it have?
Description says it support anything compatible with: Rhombus 1.0, Rhombus 2.0, OpenRhombus, Ikea Sküåir, K-Cube, and all KitchenAid Surfaces v.12 or greater. But no support for anything that requires a flat squared level surface.
Emotional
None. Though you can get another one that is almost, but not quite entirely the same as it to take up more space.
Steel?
When is someone gonna innovate, and develop the tech to do this with TUNGSTEN?
With a weight constraint of 80lb, a stainless steel block wouldn’t do a very good job of taking up space (the express purpose of the item) because it would only be 6.5 inches (16.5mm) to a side
Tungsten would do an even worse job! The sides would only be 4 inches (10cm)!
tbf it doesn’t say it’s a solid block
Awesome I was looking for a wedding gift
Easiest baby shower evaaa
That looks like more than 80 pounds. Well, maybe it’s hollow.
It’s 89.99 GBP.
Free shipping though.
