BLOG POST - 1ST JULY 2011

Here is a Rubik's cube that is truly unsolvable. While the handbag uses all the Rubik's Cubes colours as would be expected, it has mixed them up. Personally I find the scrambled look of the Cube to be a lot more cooler than the monotone flat all one colour handbags normally seen, maybe because my childhood was filled with loads of unsolved Rubik Cubes sitting around,  as well as all the usual sadness, beatings and recriminations. The vivid colour on the Cube face means that the handbag will spruce up almost any outfit you wear and adds a little zing to any fashionista's style. These Rubik Cube handbags are about 7 inches wide and the top unzips and opens with a little hatch door, and theres plenty of room to store your wallet, make up phone, mace, et cetera.

The Rubik Cube handbag is perfect for any fashionable girls who would like to add a touch of uniqueness or geekiness to their everyday lives, especially if they work in an environment where they have to dress all conservative and grey. As Jez said to some boring gimp in an episode of Peep Show, 'your dream, is everyone wearing grey, riding the grey bus, and eating grey sludge, that's your dream, isn't it.' Well, here is opportunity to sock it to those grey walking zombies getting on the bus everyday going to their dreary offices and munching on their grey sludge! As a proud owner of this handbag, I can strongly attest to the fact that its a great conversation starter for shy women. Strangers will simply approach you and ask about your handbag, usually with something dreary and predictable along the lines of whether you need any help solving it. Boring, unless of course you have a nice house, car and money in the bank.

It has been said that there is only one absolute correct answer and 43 quintillion wrong ones for Rubik's Cube. Sounds a lot to little old me but who knows, more importantly, who cares. One eighth of the world's population has laid hands on 'The Rubik Cube', the most popular puzzle game in the short and brutal history of the world. Statistics also show that 66% of those that have ever laid their hands on one have smashed them to pieces in a fit of rage. The Rubik Cube, funnily enough is named after a chap called Erno Rubik, who invented it in the basement of his fathers house whilst listening to Led Zeppelin, smoking a Doobie and watching the Fonzie chilling out during an episode of 'Happy Days.' Sunday, Monday, Happy Days, Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days, Thursday, Friday, Happy Days, Saturday, what a day, groovin' all week with you. These days are ours happy and free (oh happy days). These days are ours share them with me (oh happy days).

Super nerd Erno Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary during World War II, his mother was a poet, his father an aircraft engineer and local town drunk who started a company to build gliders. Enro's initial attraction to inventing the Rubik Cube was not in producing the best selling toy puzzle in history for materialistic gain, but instead the structural design problem interested Rubik; he pondered whilst in the bath "how can the blocks move independently without falling apart?" In Rubik's Cube, twenty-six individual little cubes or cubies make up the big Rubik Cube. Each layer of nine cubies twist and the layers can overlap. Erno summed up his eureka thinking in the following quote - "It was wonderful, to see how, after only a few turns, the colors became mixed, apparently in random fashion. It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade. Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?" - See kids, this idealistic child like thinking and philosophy was what we all had before Sky TV came along and brainwashed us all into wanting stuff we don't need and idolising WAGS, footballers and celebrities. Erno would have laughed out loud at the antics of Jordan, yet the youth of today want to be like her. Anyhoo, that was how the original and best Rubik Cube was invented in the spring of 1974, when the twenty-nine year old Enro discovered it was not so easy to realign the colors to match on all six sides. He was not sure he would ever be able to return his invention to its original position. He theorised that by randomly twisting the Cube he would never be able to fix it in a lifetime, which later turns out to be more than correct.