Two words
From the front the light reads GLASS. Walk a quarter turn and it reads LIGHT. Each point is lit only where both words agree, so the word you see depends on where you stand.
Glass that holds light.
Writing light 0 / 48,000 points
Drag the glass, or use the arrow keys, to walk around it.
First, a block of glass.
Every Cube begins as a single pour of optical glass, cast in one piece so there is no seam for the light to catch on.
- Cast once
- One pour, no joins. The block of a Cube 20 is 8 litres of glass and weighs 20 kg before it meets its base.
- Cooled for weeks
- Glass that cools quickly keeps stresses that bend light. Ours is cooled a fraction of a degree per hour: 6 days for a Cube 10, 21 days for a Cube 20.
- Polished on five faces
- The four sides and the top are polished flat. The sixth face rests on the base, which is where the light comes in.
Clear enough to disappear. Then it had to learn to hold light.
Then we taught it to hold light.
Written once
A femtosecond laser draws 16.7 million points inside the glass, each 0.02 mm across. Unlit, they are finer than a hair and you cannot see them.
Lit thirty times a second
Three lasers in the base sweep the block and light only the points that belong to the picture, 30 times every second.
Drawn in slices
The picture is drawn as 256 stacked slices, 512 in a Cube 20, faster than your eye can tell them apart. What you see is one solid image that stays where it is when you move.
There is no front.
A screen shows you one side of things. A picture inside the Cube keeps all of its sides. Choose one and walk around it.
Lake Geneva
The basin of Lac Léman, 310 m deep at its deepest, with the Alps rising on its southern shore. From the Lausanne side you look across the water at the mountains; from behind them you look back down at the city's hills.
Nautilus
From the outside, a striped spiral shell. Turn it edge-on and the light shows the thirty chambers inside, each one sealed off as the animal grew.
Moon jellyfish
A moon jellyfish 18 cm across its bell, drifting. From the side you see its trailing arms; from above, the four rings inside the bell.
Two sizes. The same light.
| Specification | Cube 10 | Cube 20 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | CHF 1,290 | CHF 2,490 |
| Glass block | 10 × 10 × 10 cm | 20 × 20 × 20 cm |
| With its base | 10 × 10 × 13 cm | 20 × 20 × 24 cm |
| Weight | 3.1 kg | 21.6 kg |
| Image volume | 1 litre | 8 litres |
| Points of light | 16.7 million (256 per edge) | 134 million (512 per edge) |
| Point spacing | 0.39 mm | 0.39 mm |
| Redrawn | 30 times a second | 30 times a second |
| Power | 45 W over USB-C | 140 W adapter |
| Sound | Silent, no fan | Under 24 dB(A) |
| Glass | Clear or Smoke | Clear or Smoke |
| Made for | A desk or a shelf, seen from arm's length | A table or a plinth, seen from across a room |
Clear or Smoke? Clear glass all but disappears in a dim room. Smoke glass is tinted to keep the picture's contrast in daylight. Both hold the same light.
Eight times the volume. The same sharpness.
Reserve yours.
A CHF 100 deposit holds your place. It is fully refundable until your Cube ships, and the rest is charged on the day it does.
Shown at true relative size: a Cube 20 is twice the height of a Cube 10.
Room light
How the reservation works
- You pay a CHF 100 deposit today. Nothing else is charged now.
- The first 500 Cubes ship in March 2027 to Switzerland and the EU. Reservations for the UK and the US, and every reservation made after the first 500, ship in June 2027.
- Until your Cube ships you can cancel at any time and get the full CHF 100 back.
- When your Cube ships we charge the rest of the price: CHF 1,190 for a Cube 10, CHF 2,390 for a Cube 20.
Reserved.
- Reservation
- VX-27-0000
- Cube
- Cube 10, Clear glass
- Ships to
- Switzerland
- Ships in
- March 2027
- Deposit paid
- CHF 100
- Charged when it ships
- CHF 1,190
Cancel any time before it ships and the CHF 100 comes back in full.