Forever fad: Rubik says his cube 'reminds us why we have hands'

Tourists take photos next to the Cube of the Centre Pompidou Modern Art Museum in Malaga, Spain. Photo: Reuters

The naysayers said the maddening multicoloured cube that Erno Rubik invented 50 years ago would not survive the 1980s.

Yet millennials and Generation Z are as nuts about Rubik's Cube as their parents were, much to the amusement of its 79-year-old creator, who talked to AFP in a rare interview.