First Person: Free Your Skis

March, 2009

Our biggest limitations often come from our own assumptions. For centuriessailors assumed the earth was flat. And for decades we assumed all the individual squares of a Ru- ( bik's Cube had to be the same size. Rubik's Mirror Blocks ($36, audiocubes.com) shows how things can improve once you get over your preconceptions. It'salso tne first cube to look more in­teresting when unsolved. Don't call it a frustrating reminder of your inad­equacies; call it dynamic sculpture.