The official Rubik's WOWCube System — museum collection record
The WOWCube was accessioned into the permanent collection of The Strong (Electronic Games / Handhelds) — object nos. 126.1046–126.1048.
Press coverage and interviews — about me and about the products and companies I created, from the city portal NN.RU to i2iStudy, NumBuster, Cubios and the WOWCube.
The WOWCube was accessioned into the permanent collection of The Strong (Electronic Games / Handhelds) — object nos. 126.1046–126.1048.
After 150 hours with the Rubik's WOWCube, a verdict: accessible “spatial computing” that bridges analog puzzles and digital play.
Reseña del Rubik's WOWCube: el cubo con 24 pantallas que mezcla el juego físico y el digital.
A full hardware review of the Rubik's WOWCube — a modern, screen-covered take on the classic cube.
A deep hands-on review of the Rubik's WOWCube, the puzzle reborn as a twist-and-tilt gaming console.
Expert review of Cubios' Rubik's WOWCube — a STEM-certified puzzle-meets-gaming device for ages 13+.
The Rubik's WOWCube featured on Fox News as the next big thing in interactive gaming.
First hands-on look at the new Rubik's WOWCube from New York Comic Con.
Spin Master turns the classic Rubik's Cube into a screen-covered gaming device — the Rubik's WOWCube.
Official announcement: Spin Master and Cubios re-introduce the Rubik's WOWCube, a new spin on the beloved puzzle.
Test der drehbaren Spielkonsole WOWCube — ein 2×2-Würfel mit 24 Displays und Bewegungssteuerung.
A hands-on take on the WOWCube — ingenious 24-screen hardware, with open questions about software and price.
История WOWCube: отец и сын Осиповы собрали предзаказы на $39 млн.
The Cubios WOWCube named one of TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2021.
The WowCube takes gaming to another dimension — a CES 2021 Innovation Award honoree.
The most difficult part was the topology of the device. Not only did it need to rotate mechanically like a Rubik's Cube, but it also needed to do so while supporting electrical…
The cube with screens-facets, with moving freely through them characters of puzzle-games, resembles the Rubic's cube by form. Watch the record of Russian local TV-program (in…
The developers of portable gaming console WOWCube, which resembles the Rubic's cube by form, became finalists of the annual American competition Edison Awards-2020 in consumer…
Ilya Osipov’s alma mater, Lobachevsky University (UNN), features him as its graduate — “Выпускник ННГУ” — for winning the People’s Choice award at CES 2020 with the WOWCube.
Everyone knows about the classic Rubik's Cube. But what if this decades-old puzzle was updated for modern times? It would look something like the WOWCube, which we took a look…
Russians pimped the Rubic's cube, and created game console on it's baze. This is story of creation of the WOW Cube. Startup's founder Ilya Osipov recount, that the idea of cube…
La respuesta es sí. Ilya Osipov, un ingeniero informático ruso-americano, junto a su hijo Savva, han diseñado WoWCube. Inspirándose en el mítico cubo de Rubik, padre e hijo han…
This new twist on the beloved analog Rubik's Cube could be the next Pokemon Go. There's something in it for everyone. As if they were paid shills, the two children at the table…
The innovative WOWCube gaming console is preparing for production and fielding as the parent company Cubios Inc. closer to product launch. The WOWCube is a spectacular…
Inventor and founder of the startup WowCube Ilya Osipov is telling us, how he has invented a puzzle and has sold rights to it to the American toys producer company. Read more…
"It's hardest pain, that the country of my citizenship offends the country from fairy tales, from my childhood": Georgian media notice inventor Ilya Osipov's point of view of…
WOWCube is a family project of IT-entrepreneur from Nizhny Novgorod, Ilya Osipov, and his 14-years old son, Savva. In 2012 Ilya sold his business and moved to California. Not…
Yesterday, September 5, one of the world's largest technology conferences, TechCrunch Disrupt, started in San Francisco, for which, for the first time, a 13-year-old schoolboy…
"The apple doesn't fall far." The Russian version of our saying "Such a stick, such a splinter" may seem more juicy but it is just illustration. And in the story of Ilya Osipov…
Dozens of cases are known, when a project launched on a Kickstarter was copied and then sold on eBay and AliExpress in a few weeks, literally. That is why, when my son Savva…
Three deals were made in two days in direct negotiations, just by shaking on them and only then signing written contracts. It took longer (about two months) to talk to the…
What will happen to the blockchain and cryptocurrencies? I predict that this bubble will continue to grow and then will burst, as it happened to dot-coms in 2000. It will be a…
The NumBuster team on its app being pulled from Google Play after a trademark complaint by Truecaller.
I can make an example of a successful project from France. They sell the hot line messenger services to major retail companies. In Europe, the company rose more than €20 mln in…
My two partners and me got in on a construction project: we bought a single-story restaurant, in a very bad state, but a very good location, just to get the land it stood on.…
For interesting projects, there is the format provided by Kickstarter, IndiGoGo, and Boomstarter in Russia. "This format is quite justified. One can say that it is a tax of…
The best and smartest experts equipped with the knowledge of the past are unable of assessing promising ideas. Everybody knows how Sergey Brin and Lary Page were trying to sell…
I have given you a rather exhaustive list of the reasons why you should not invest in startups. Why, then, do I not shy away from the role of a business angel myself? The…
And so the talks started: the Fund Director, Deputy Director, an ambitious employee, and a lawyer on their side, and some people, on our side. Then, after almost a year of our…
An edtech feature on i2iStudy — the peer-to-peer, time-banking platform for practising languages with native speakers.
We removed the cross in the top right corner of the window and made the window "modal", i.e., it ceased to disappear after a click out of its frame. Moreover, such clicks were…
We kept creating new functionality by focusing on people's needs, for example, we made a notice board analogous to the American Craigslist, and a virtual mail service. Our…
An early review of NumBuster, the crowdsourced caller-ID and spam-call blocker I co-founded.
San Francisco is growing and developing rapidly, although f rom the viewpoint of overregulation this is one of the worst in the USA (a huge amount of limitations of all…
Nizhny Novgorod startup i2istudy.com named among the FRII accelerator’s top-50 projects.
Meanwhile, an initiative group headed by the blogger Ilya Osipov in Nizhny Novgorod started gathering signatures of NN residents in furtherance of the Mayor's resignation and…
Iosilevich and Osipov are legends of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet. In 1999, they created nn.ru, the city portal. "Internet is a global thing, but people always have local…
Why is that that when all commit petty offences, one is taken and treated to the maximum, with all the rigour of the law? Actually, the legal framework of our country is…
Actually, the volume of minimal investments can be very small. Projects are frequently prototyped out of pocket money. The source of funding at the zeroth stage of a startup…
Yes, there will be excesses. Moreover, a new format is being established: nobody wants to read long texts on the Internet, two or three paragraphs max, and you move along,…
We are concerned not only about the part, but also about Gorky Street and Osharskaya Street, where an office center is built under the supervision of Mr. Sorokin. We feel…
Ilya Osipov made the cover of America’s Inventors Digest (“The WOW of 3D”) for the WOWCube puzzle console he created.
The WOWCube took a CES 2020 Innovation Award in Las Vegas — the idea for it, the article notes, came from Osipov’s son Savva.