This is a household lamp, not a flashlight meant to be bashed, thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a carport in effort to try and expose the bare Metalmarineangemon - er - the bare Metaltrailmon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalsusanoomon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!), let my mother's big dog's ghost, her kitties, my kitty or my sister's kitty cat piddle (uranate) on it, hose it down with my mother's gun, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (now I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. Therefore, this section of the 's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

Lifted directly off the product's web page on the HypnoCube's website (no changes to punctuation, syntax, or grammar were made):

Hardware Features:

 64 three-color RGB LEDs (for a total of 192 individually
 addressable LEDs), with 16 levels per color channel.
 Thus the 4Cube can display 4096 colors!

 Runs on PIC18F4620, which has 64K ROM, 3.8K RAM,
 and runs at 32MHZ (8 MIPS).

 We’ve packed it to the gills and running it fully maxed.

 Simple usage – turn it on and it goes!

 Hackable – program your own cube to do what you want (difficult though!)


Software Features:

 51 distinct visualizations.

 10+ transition effects.

 Variable speed randomly smoothed along random paths.

 Dynamic palette morphing for smooth color effects.

 Arbitrary symmetry and affine transform mappings
 performed dynamically.

 Color, timing, symmetry, and transition randomization
 for creating unique visualizations on the fly.

 512-bit random cycle seed saved between power-ups
 almost guarantees never repeating visualization cycle.

 Created with 20,000 lines of C code, and several
 hundred of assembler.

 Code is fourth complete rewrite, so is very polished.

 Three 8-bit channels of color computed internally,
 then dithered down to 4096 colors.

 Displays over 6500 frames per second to modulate the colors.

 Uses a custom fixed-point 3D engine for image generation,
 along with numerous hand crafted sprites and animations.

When the product is energized, you'll see it lighting up all white, cycling through red, blue, and green colors, and then showing a white dot briefly illuminating every LED. I believe that this is the microcontroller's resident diagnostic program executing a self-test before the actual program is executed.



Photograph of the product displaying but a tiny snippet of one of its patterns.




Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this product.

The peak wavelengths for each die are as follows:

629.340nm (red)
517.530nm (green)
465.610nm (blue)

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/hypcube.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.




Video on YourTube showing the Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) running through some of its patterns.

O BOY!
BLINKING & PULSATING LIGHTS!!
So thrilling!!
So pulse-racing!!!
Actually, it kinda makes you want to "kik" "uh" "staneles" "steal" "toliet" "bole" "oph" "thuh" "floar" & "thenn" "proseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "yer" "phavouret" "noo" "galph" "klubbz" doesn't it?

That music that you hear is zax from the computer demo, "Hardwired" by the Commodore Amiga demo group, "Crionics and the Silents" from 1991.

The Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) isn't audio (sound)-sensitive; the zax may safely be ignored or even muted if it torques you off.

This video is 69.9569049152 megabytes (70,217,503 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than three hundred forty nine minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
This video is ***NOT*** dial-up friendly!!!




Video showing the Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) running through some of its patterns.

That music that you hear are several choons by the Rochester NY. synth-comedy group, "Worm Quartet".
In order of their appearance, they are:

Adventures in Creative Nostril Swallowing
Ice Cream Has No Bones
Inner Voice with Sudden Death
C is for Lettuce
Eskimo Pie is Not Pie and Contains Very Little Eskimo

The Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) isn't audio (sound)-sensitive; the zax may safely be ignored or even muted if it pisses you off.

O BOY!
BLINKING & PULSATING LIGHTS!!
So thrilling!!
So pulse-racing!!!
Actually, it kinda "maiks" "ewe" "wontt" "tu" "kik" "ovorr" "won" "uv" "thoz" "Penile-Whear®" "liggecher-rezistent" "prizen" "commbies" "ahnd" "thenn" "pruhseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "uhn "olde" "orr" "uzed" "ho" (the gardening tool, not the other kind hahah!!!) doesn't it?

This video is 91.6933372687 megabytes (91,946,749 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than four hundred fifty eight minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
This video is definitely ***NOT*** dial-up friendly!!!




Video showing the Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) in operation, this time from an isometric view (from the top but also looking at the left and front faces of the product).

That music that you hear are choons from the coin-op arcade video game Afterburner II by Sega, and zax from the Commodore Amiga computer demo program, "äMPäri3" by the demo group Dekadence from 2011.

The Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) isn't audio (sound)-sensitive; the zax may safely be ignored or even muted if it pisses you off.

This video is 166.8599090033 megabytes (167,334,887 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than eight hundred thirty four minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
This video is definitely ***NOT*** dial-up friendly!!!




Video on YourTube that shows the Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) and Hypnosquare LED Array in operation side-by-side.

That music that you hear is computer-generated zax from the following sources:

Zax from the pee-cee demo, "Boost" by the PC demo group, "Doomsday".
Zax from the pee-cee demo, "Caero" by the PC demo group, "EMF" (ElectroMotive Force).
Zax from the crack, trainer, and loader for the Commodore 64 computer video game, "Wasteland".
Zax from the pee-cee demo, "Collapse" by the PC demo group, " The Brain Slayer" (TBS).
Zax from the coin-op arcade video game, "Roadblaster" by Atari.

Neither product is audio (sound)-sensitive; the zax may safely be ignored or even muted if it pisses you off.

O BOY!
BLINKING & PULSATING LIGHTS!!
So exciting!!
So pulse-pounding!!!
Actually, it kinda makes you want to "kik" "thuh" "pee" "trahp" "oph" "uv" "uh" "kichenn" "sinc" "ahnd" "thenn" "wotch" "thuh" "rume" "slowlie" "beecum" "fludded" "wen" "sumbuddy" "uzes" "thaat" "synk" doesn't it?

This video is 161.8373457823 megabytes (162,502,611 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than eight hundred nine minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
This video is ***NOT*** dial-up friendly!!!




This video shows the Hypnosquare LED Array and the Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) playing well together -- set to a number of choons from the Rochester NY. musical act Worm Quartet.

That music that you hear are several choons by the Rochester NY. synth-comedy group, "Worm Quartet".
In order of their appearance, they are:

Violin Solo
Carbonated Hamsters
Coffee
I Can't Get a Job
I Still Know You're a Fish
Spatula
Ice Cream Has No Bones
Call Me Jennifer and Steal My Stapler
Pac Man is Naked and So Should You
Adventures in Creative Nostril Swallowing

Neither product is audio (sound)-sensitive; the zax may safely be ignored or even muted if it pisses you off.

This video is 162.6832378116 megabytes (163,054,591 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than eight hundred thirteen minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
This video is ***NOT*** dial-up friendly!!!


TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on the ThinkGeek website on 04-18-14 and was received at 4:03pm PDT on 04-24-14.

The AC adapter has an output of +7.50 volts at 1.0 amps.


UPDATE: 05-19-14
My cat Nikki doesn't appear to like this product, so I need to keep it turned off at night.


PROS:
Amazing, mesmerizing light show!
Appears truly three-dimensional
Many, many non-repeating patterns


NEUTRAL:
May be a bit on the bright side to use as a nightlight -- however this is a subjective opinion that will not affect rating


CONS:
None that I've yet to discover

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Decorative household (mood) lamp
LAMP TYPE: 5mm (T1¾) RGB LED
No. OF LAMPS: 64
BEAM TYPE: Wide flood
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/off on back of product
CASE MATERIAL: Lucite plastic
BEZEL: Transparent colorless panels protect LEDs
BATTERY: N/A
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡UN FANTASMA ESPANTOSO GRANDE QUE TOMA UNA MIERDA ENORME EN UNA CESTA DE DESECHO PLÁSTICA ESTO SE DESBORDA YA POR TOALLAS DE PAPEL SUCIAS, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: AC adapter
SIZE: 127mm W x 127mm D x 165mm T
WEIGHT: 481.20g (16.970 oz.)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

PRODUCT RATING:



(No, you aren't seeing things. That really is six stars up there!!!
This is tied for the best product (the other product is the Hypnosquare LED Array) to have landed in my lab in the last 14 years!!!

Hypnocube Animated LED Cube (4Cube) * www.thinkgeek.com...

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