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 one year delay of the release of the C Cube, which will render all previous technology obsolete. However Spiro has his bodyguard mortally injure...
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