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C Cube
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The C Cube is a fictional electronic device created by the character Artemis Fowl. It has technological capabilities fifty years ahead of its time and is central to the plot of Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code.
The C Cube is created by Artemis Fowl before the third book in the series, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. A creative hybrid of human and fairy technology taken from the commandos of LEPretrieval One in the first book (led by Captain Trouble Kelp), Artemis created a new language to create a once-theoretical "Eternity Code", a supposedly unbreakable encryption.
The C Cube's name is a pun on "see", to mean the "all-seeing cube", due to its scanner technology.
Artemis attempts to blackmail Jon Spiro (a ruthless businessman from Chicago with his wealth built on his technological empire) to pay one metric tonne of gold in return for a two year delay of the release of the C Cube, which will render all previous technology obsolete. However Spiro steals the C Cube, hoping to use it to increase his vast holdings.
Artemis eventually retrieves the C Cube from the Spiro Needle with the help of his fairy friends.
The C Cube can be used as a Micro TV, a verbally controlled computer, a mobile phone, and a diagnostic aid, it can read any information on any platform, electronic or organic. Consequently it can scan a person's chest to see how fast their heart is beating. It can play CDs, DVDs, go online, retrieve e-mail, and hack any computer. Artemis demonstrates that the C Cube can "Download, compensate and play" an old video cassette to DVD quality with its "omni-sensor".
The C Cube can be programmed to piggyback onto the source signal of any satellite, an application of technology so new that it has not been made illegal yet.
The battery lasts for two years, and it is completely wireless. The shell is blue on the cover of the American edition of the book (but red on the European cover), and is small enough to be clipped onto a belt loop, with a perspex keyboard. The C Cube has a tough polymer coating that is "virtually indestructible". The C Cube has a hypercubic shape a bit like the supercomputer Connection Machine.
Artemis Fowl used the C Cube in Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code to hack into the LEP computer mainframe without Foaly noticing, securing the release of the reprobate Mulch Diggums by changing the date of his original search warrant.
He also uses the C Cube to gain access to Jon Spiro's 37 international bank accounts, intending to transfer the 2.8 billion US dollars to the Fowl family finances before a sudden change of heart means he sends it to Amnesty International (with a 10% finder's fee for himself).