Word: cubes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video game, is its least significant. But even if the buzz and clang of the arcades is largely a teen-age fad, doomed to go the way of Rubik's Cube and the Hula Hoop, it is nonetheless a remarkable phenomenon. About 20 corporations are selling some 250 different game cassettes for roughly $2 billion this year. According to some estimates, more han half of all the personal computers bought for home use are devoted mainly to games...
...second day aloft, while orbiting 185 miles above the Pacific, the crew set Insat-1B spinning outside the open doors of the shuttle's payload bay. The satellite spun near by in space for 45 minutes, then, reflecting the sun's rays like a giant shiny ice cube, it flawlessly began its week-long climb to an altitude of 22,300 miles, propelled by its own rocket boosters. "The deployment was on time, and the satellite looks good," reported Mission Specialist Guion S. Bluford Jr., an aerospace engineer and veteran Air Force pilot who is the first...
...Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, infants as young as two weeks were confronted with a cube (or sometimes only the shadow of a cube) that began moving slowly toward them. When it seemed about to hit them, they showed what psychologists call "a strong avoidance-reaction pattern." They turned aside and squirmed and tried to avoid being struck, though they had no previous experience that would make them think that the approaching object would hit them. When such a cube or its shadow approached the babies on an angled path that would miss them, however, the babies followed...
...more and freer East-West trade. Said he last week: "We have 400 million people in the East who are very much interested in buying the consumer goods you produce." Hungary has actually been rather successful at selling many items in the West, from the original Rubik's Cube to Crown-Ikarus buses, which are used in Portland, Ore., and San Mateo, Calif...
Unlike the Pet Rock, which insulted the intelligence, and Rubik's Cube, which defied it, a big new hit on the toy scene tickles the imagination and captivates the eye. The Wacky WallWalker, as it is called, is a sticky, rubber, eight-legged object that exists to be thrown at a wall or window, on which it alights, shudders, flips, turns, wriggles and lurches downward, shimmying like a pixilated octopus...