RUBIK'S CUBE INVENTION: Google celebrates toy puzzle's 40th anniversary …

Today's Google Doodle marks the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube: the toy and/or puzzle that has rapidly infuriated and then eternally haunted almost every person to have walked this fair Earth since the 1970s.

Update: If you've had some fun with the Rubik's Cube on Google's homepage, you should venture to the Chrome Cube Lab next. The site explains some of the technology running the virtual incarnation, as well as access to 

Update: If you've had some fun with the Rubik's Cube on Google's homepage, you should venture to the Chrome Cube Lab next. The site explains some of the technology running the virtual incarnation, as well as access to 

The Rubik's Cube, both a torture and a delight to many of us, today celebrates its 40th birthday, and Google has joined in with an interactive Rubik's Cube Google doodle. I've already spent about 15 minutes playing around 

We'd like to tell you what happens when you solve the cube, but for obvious reasons you'll have to figure that one out for yourself. Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube in 1974 — today is the 40th