The world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube might have the world’s highest price tag, too. The fully functional six-sided puzzle cube by Japanese toymaker MegaHouse is so tiny it could fit under a finger nail, and you might need tweezers to solve it. At the price of $5,320 (777,777 yen), the cube was made available for pre-order … Read more
Fifty years ago, as he sat in his mother’s apartment in Budapest, Hungary, young professor, Ernő Rubik, finally finished the prototype of his “Magic Cube.” A teacher at 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
It was fair and square. A specially designed Mistubuishi robot in Japan set a remarkable Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in a split second. The champion TOKUI Fast Accurate Synchronized Motion Testing Robot spun the colorful six-faced puzzle in a mere 0.305 seconds, outdoing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology bot’s 0.38-second record … Read more
This guy’s thinking outside the box. Florian Kastenmeier, of Germany, now holds the Guinness World Record for assembling the largest collection of rotating puzzles in the world — a whopping 1,519. The Bavarian 40-year-old’s obsession with Rubik’s Cubes began when he was a kid and he and his three brothers attempted to solve the puzzle. … Read more