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. "I think it's very important, and for me, it's a good feeling if I can help to remind us how important (it is) to work with the hands, to transform materials, to make changes in the world," says Rubik. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES