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...your home-entertainment needs may be fulfilled by an inconspicuous cube that sits in the center of your living room. For now, if you want to do all the cool things modern consumer electronics allow--record DVDs, watch movies in HDTV, save your favorite TV shows for later viewing (with or without the commercials) and load all your CDs onto a hard drive for easier organization--you need space for a wall of sound and video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dream Scheme | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...take full advantage of surround-sound systems. Finally, upgrade your TV. Your old set probably isn't ready for the new high-definition programming (see "I Want My HDTV!"). Once your basic system is in place, you'll be ready to plug and play for years--or until that cube becomes a reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dream Scheme | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...thought they were just garden-variety alcoholics. In fact, the FM crack staff also get their kicks from Boggle. Boggle, for the unconverted amongst you, is a surprisingly addictive word-search game where one hunts forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally in a grid of lettered cubes. Though some use a 4-by-4 grid, FM favors the deluxe 5-by-5 model for, as the box reads, “those BOGGLE lovers who can’t stop connecting letters to spell words and collect more points.” True! In the space of three minutes...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bogglopolypse Now | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...word “KEEN,” one moves in many directions and each letter cube is used no more than once. After three minutes are up, players compare their list of words found—if more than one player has found the same word, all must strike it from their list. Words found by only one player are assigned scores: 1 point for a four-letter word, 2 points for a five-letter word...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bogglopolypse Now | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...Friday is more of the rambunctious same. It's Christmas Eve in the ghetto, which, the narrator tells us, is "the only place you can get robbed by Santa Claus." Cousins Craig (Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps), the victims of a burglary, have one day to raise the stolen rent money, so they take jobs as security guards in the local strip mall. This Elvz N the Hood is standard, vigorous fare with a terrific supporting performance by Katt Williams as a pint-size pimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cube Squared | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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