{"id":564018,"date":"2026-07-01T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/564018\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:55:11","slug":"the-cube-was-a-lie-up-close-with-our-dbrand-companion-cube-before-it-gets-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/564018\/","title":{"rendered":"The cube was a lie: up close with our Dbrand Companion Cube before it gets destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">I couldn\u2019t believe it. Surely Dbrand had to have seen this coming. There must be a plan B, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cThere is no further plan. We fucked this one up,\u201d Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz now tells me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">He says Dbrand will now have to destroy every single cube it manufactured, and it won\u2019t even get to throw them in an incinerator for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=537EiNMlGqg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thematically appropriate fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Here\u2019s the good news: I took up-close-and-personal photos of the (likely) copyright-infringing gadget for posterity on June 19th, before the lawyers struck. You can wistfully imagine what could have been, or use them as an outlet for your schadenfreude at Dbrand\u2019s incredibly embarrassing mistake&#8230; or both! I won\u2019t judge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Here are all my photos in roughly chronological order:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I couldn\u2019t believe it. Surely Dbrand had to have seen this coming. There must be a plan B,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,7894,11764,19,17,13535,1143,753,82],"class_list":["post-564018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eire","tag-gaming","tag-hands-on","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pc-gaming","tag-reviews","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116846718283409182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}