Inventor of Rubik’s Cube turns 80 — 50 years of world’s most popular puzzle toy
Fifty years ago, sitting in his mother’s apartment in Budapest, Hungary, a young professor named Ernő Rubik finally completed a prototype for the “Magic Cube.” Rubik, an interior design teacher, was fascinated by geometry but his attempts to create a robust 3D structure with movable, interchangeable layers were unsuccessful. But after months of perseverance, Rubik […]