Ernő Rubik

mr tea拿了一个rubik's clock回来
实在觉得是头大，以为是50年代或60年代的玩具
后来才知道，这是魔方的发明人的其他作品
上网看后，才晓得，原来连魔方也是70年代的产物
太绝妙了！他有好多好多奇妙的puzzle玩具

鲁比克·艾尔内（匈牙利文：Rubik Ernő），出生于1944年7月13日，是匈牙利籍的发明家、雕刻家和建筑学教授。他为世界所知是因为发明了魔方系列玩具


Ernő Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary July 13, 1944 during World War II. His father, Ernő Rubik was a flight engineer at the Esztergom airplane factory, his mother a poet. He graduated from the Technical University, Budapest (Műszaki Egyetem) in 1967 as an architectural engineer and began postgraduate studies in sculpting and interior architecture. From 1971 to 1975 he worked as an architect, then became a professor at the Budapest College of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Főiskola). He has spent all his life in Hungary.

"Space always intrigued me, with its incredibly rich possibilities, space alteration by (architectural) objects, objects' transformation in space (sculpture, design), movement in space and in time, their correlation, their repercussion on mankind, the relation between man and space, the object and time. I think the CUBE arose from this interest, from this search for expression and for this always more increased acuteness of these thoughts..."

In the early 1980s, he became editor of a game and puzzle journal called ...És játék ("...and games"), then became self-employed in 1983, founding the Rubik Stúdió, where he designed furniture and games. In 1987 he became professor with full tenure; in 1990 he became the president of the Hungarian Engineering Academy (Magyar Mérnöki Akadémia). At the Academy, he created the International Rubik Foundation to support especially talented young engineers and industrial designers.
Presently he is mainly working on video game development and architectural topics and is still leading the Rubik Studios.
He is known to be a very introverted and hardly accessible person, almost impossible to contact or get for autographs. He typically refuses to attend speedcubing events. However, he attended the 2007 World Championship in Budapest.

魔方（英语：Rubik's Cube），在台湾称为魔术方块，在香港称为扭计骰，是匈牙利建筑学教授和雕塑家鲁比克·艾尔内（Rubik Ernő），于1974年发明的机械益智玩具，最初的名称叫Magic Cube，后来被Ideal Toys改为Rubik's cube。根据估计，魔方自发明以来在全世界已经售出了3亿多个。魔方在1980年代最为风靡，至今未衰。面世不久后，很多类似的玩具也纷纷出现，有些出自发明人鲁比克，包括2阶、4阶和5阶版本的魔方；有些则是出自别人之手。魔方发明人鲁比克教授在1974年获得匈牙利专利号HU170062，他认为别人不太愿意生产这种玩具，因此没有申请国际专利，但实际上克隆产品几乎马上就出现了。最早的魔方是鲁比克教授发明的，但是并不是为了投入生产和娱乐。因为他是建筑学和雕塑学教授，所以他自己动手做出了第一个魔方的雏形来帮助学生们认识空间立方体的组成和结构。在他完成第一个作品以后，转动了几下，发现原本齐整的魔方竟然很难恢复，于是他意识到这个新的发明会很不简单。但是他想不到的是，这个边长不到6厘米的玩具竟然会在未来风靡全球，甚至出现了以魔方为道具的运动。