“It’s a little plastic toy,” said Jessica Fridrich, tossing a Rubik’s Cube between her long-fingered hands on a stormy afternoon in her office at Binghamton University in upstate New York, her ...
To many, it’s just a toy, a 3-by-3-by-3 vestige of a simpler time. To others, the original Rubik’s Cube represents the boldest of brain challenges, height of head games, the No. 1 metaphoric ...