Fifty Years of Rubik’s Cube and Earlier Brain Teasers
Nicolas Ricketts of The Strong spotlights the Rubik’s Cube and three brain-teasing predecessors.
Pretzel, the Pickup Pooch from Transogram (1963)
In 1963, Transogram released Pretzel, a mechanical pet capable of playing a rudimentary form of fetch.
Musician Rod Stewart built a 1500-square-foot model railway in his home that is styled after 1940s Chicago and Manhattan.
I would say 90 percent of it I built myself. The only thing I wasn't very good at and still am not is the electricals, so I had someone else do that."
— Rod Stewart