flashcube

[ flash-kyoob ]

noun

1. a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flashcube¹

First recorded in 1960–65; flash + cube ¹

Example Sentences

A Flashcube’s aluminum filament takes one hundred years to decompose, and its plastic casing up to a thousand.

From Slate

However, the photographic prints it produced will degrade within half a century, making the interior, familial memories that the Flashcube helped to capture far more susceptible to disposability than the object used to create them.

From Slate

Consequently the Flashcube’s simple provocation reveals that vanity and violence are essential accompaniments to un-disposability.

From Slate

It might have fallen out of use, but the abandoned and slowly degrading Flashcube acts as a dimly pulsating warning light, reminding us that the objects we design to indulge our narcissistic fumbling towards immortality only serve to end our life, rather than extend it.

From Slate

The Kodak Flashcube—a rotating cube with a miniature flashbulb incarcerated within each of its four mirrored compartments—made amateur photography of the domestic interior possible from the mid-1960s onwards.

From Slate