As the inventor of the Rubik's Cube, Erno Rubik holds Hungarian patent number #170062, but has not applied for an international patent. (He thought others would be reluctant to produce the toy, but clones appeared almost immediately.) The son of a poet and a glider designer, he studied at Budapest University of Technology He studied architecture and sculptural interior design at the School of Practical Arts in Budapest.
After thinking hard, Rubik finally found a way to make blocks of different colors rotate along two vertical axes without falling apart. In Rubik's words, the Rubik's Cube was born out of his interest in "space transformation."
Professor Rubik did not invent the Rubik's Cube for production and entertainment. Because he is a professor of architecture and sculpture, he made the first prototype of the Rubik's Cube himself to help students understand space. Composition and structure of the cube. After he completed his first work, he turned it a few times and found that the originally neat Rubik's Cube was difficult to restore, so he realized that this new invention would be very difficult.
In 1977, the Rubik's Cube first appeared in a toy store in Budapest and became a great Hungarian invention together with Burrow's ballpoint pen and safety matches.
The Rubik’s Cube became widely popular in the 1980s. From 1980 to 1982, nearly 2 million Rubik's Cubes were sold. In 1981, a little boy from England, Patrick Bossert, wrote a book called "You Can Restore the Rubik's Cube" (the Chinese translation translated by Shiyuan is "How to Play the Rubik's Cube", ISBN: R13056·142), with a total of nearly 1.5 million copies sold. Due to the huge business opportunities of the Rubik's Cube, Professor Rubik and his partners developed the second-order and fourth-order Rubik's Cube, and these two products were also successful.
According to statistics from Rubik's company, this kind of rotatable toy composed of different colored squares set off its first craze between 1980 and 1982, with more than 400 million sold worldwide. And today’s Rubik’s Cube sales are even better than they were back then. Although the Rubik's Cube is once again popular, Rubik still doesn't like to appear in public and has refused all interview requests. The 70-year-old Hungarian engineer lives and works in Budapest and runs Rubik's Studio, which owns the Rubik's Cube trademark.
Rubik Studio is located behind a modern office building and makes a living selling games designed by Rubik's inventors. The company currently does not release sales data.
Rubik is still involved in housing design, and his firm was involved in the design of the Hungarian headquarters of Siemens AG in Budapest and the People's Park bus station.
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, holds a World Rubik's Cube Championship in early spring every year. Gabor Conci, head of the Hungarian Cultural Foundation, said that the revival of the Rubik's Cube is due to its simplicity and ease of play. "I can put it in my pocket and take it out to play at any time and place. It can ease a person's standing." The feeling of loneliness in the crowd. ”
The Rubik’s Cube is not only a toy for children, but also a way of leisure and relaxation and a form of sports competition, plus more exciting and challenging racing and one-handed racing. , foot twisting, blind twisting and other methods of playing the Rubik's Cube, making more and more people pay attention to the Rubik's Cube again.