Uwe Mèffert

In the early 1970s, Mèffert was interested in whether pyramids, cubes and other shapes might influence one's health and bio-energy flows.

[1] After playing around with this idea for a while, he cut the solids into symmetric slices and attached them with rubber bands to a center ball.

[1] With the aid of his brother (an engineer), he was able to develop a simple mechanism that allowed the parts to move relative to each other.

"[4]He did not think anyone else would be interested in the idea, and put the shapes away and forgot about them until Ernő Rubik's Cube became a worldwide sensation in the early 1980s.

[4] Mèffert bought the patent rights for the dodecahedron puzzle, and released it under the name of the Megaminx.

He resided in Hong Kong since the early 1980s,[3] as well as spending much time in Australasia researching human and animal nutrition.