The Gear-cube is a brand new concept in cube design and has the following inventive steps. Using a full gear mechanism that requires twelve 90 turns to complete one rotation but having said this it is still slightly easier then the Rubik's cube, Designed by M. Oskar van Deventer and inspired by a gearing idea by Bram Cohen, it will be Meffert's Puzzle Of the Year for 2010. Hardest is solving the puzzle as a whole, which is still easier than the original Rubik's Cube.