Inventor of the Rubik’s Cube turns 80 – 50 years of the world’s most popular puzzle toy

Fifty years ago, while sitting in his mother’s apartment in Budapest, Hungary, the young professor, ErnÅ’ Rubik, finally completed the prototype of the “Magic Cube”. A teacher in the Department of Interior Design, Rubik was fascinated by geometry, but his attempts to create a solid, 3D structure with movable and interchangeable layers had frustrated him. … Read more