Musical Cube

You love your MP3 player, but you love the '80s even more. This doesn't have to be a competition — not if you had an MP3 player shaped like a Rubik's Cube. After all, that Rubik's Cube speaker you got for your apartment a while back gives you that cubical vibe only when you're at home, so you need something for your Rubik's fix when you're on the go.

The Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toys in 1980^[3] and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. As of January 2009, 350 million cubes have sold worldwide^[4][5] making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy.

Designer Hee Yong Shin's Cube MP3 player also includes some nice touches: the USB port is only visible when you twist the layers, and when you twist them back so the player becomes a cube again, the buttons lock — simple and intuitive. But one problem I see is that the headphone jack is also only visible when the layers are twisted, so you can't listen when it's in cube form. And it obviously can't function as a real Rubik's Cube, if that matters to you.

Good thing the Cube is just a concept, then, since it seems Hee still has a few bugs to work out. But it's still a cool design that I wouldn't mind seeing in stores sometime soon.

 it's actually the size of a Rubik's Cube, dedicate 1/3 of the volume to its battery pack. Imagine the listening time you'd have with that much storage.it needs a slide over faceplate for the audio display panel so it can look like a real rubiks cube - but my luck some one would grab it and twist it in the wrong direction and break it