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...Buvos Kocka means Magic Cube, but outside Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Erno Rubik. THE DEVICE IS ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED THE HUNGARIAN HORROR, SINCE IT CAN INDUCE TEMPORARY DEMENTIA IN OTHERWISE BALANCED CITIZENS ... It looks innocuous enough?a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color ... The aim of the game is to scramble the colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...measure, Büvös Kocka is the hottest number to come out of Budapest since the Gabor girls went West. Büvös Kocka means Magic Cube, but out side Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Ernö Rubik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hot-Selling Hungarian Horror | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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