February 2010 FYI – 2010, meet 1980

30 years ago, a device of sheer torture was unleashed on the world in the disguise of a toy puzzle. Ok, maybe I’m being a little dramatic, but the Rubik’s Cube definitely felt like torture to me as a kid. I never had the patience to solve it. Ironically, I picked one up over the holidays and now armed with the Internet, started researching how to solve it. I almost completed it, but I put it down and haven’t yet gotten back to finishing it. Now a robot made of Legos has showed me up. It can solve a Rubik’s cube in under 12 seconds. I guess I better get back to that cube …