The modern world is not short of collaborations between big brands, but here's one that caught me off-guard: You can now buy a Rubik's Tetris Cube. The difference-maker here is that, rather than twisting the cube to create a solid colour on each face, you're trying to form six of Tetris' tetrominoes, and can then show off your handiwork thanks to a stand shaped like the line tetromino.
All very nice, but perhaps the best thing to come out of this is a meeting between Ernő Rubik, the Hungarian architect and inventor of the cube (among many other things), and Alexey Pajitnov, the Russian creator of Tetris. Rubik is a cool customer but you can tell that Pajitnov is absolutely over the moon, filled with boyish excitement at meeting one of his heroes, and pays tribute to the original Rubik's cube in soaring terms.
