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Just when I thought I lost all hope in humanity's battle against the robots, out comes a video that restores my faith in the species. Yes, young David Calvo provides us with this video of himself not only solving a Rubik's Cube with one hand, but juggling two solved cubes at the same time.

The folks at Microsoft Research have uploaded a video showing off its HoloDesk, an interactive system that combines an "optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics."

The continuing race between robots and humans keeps chalking up victories for our soon-to-be ruling overlords.

When the Rubik's Cube was unleashed on the world in the late '70s and early '80s, I caught onto the craze like everyone else, trying to solve the puzzle cube as quickly as possible. I eventually bought a cheat book and figured out how to solve it, but my best times were in the under 5 minute mark, not seconds like the speed solvers seen here, at the recent Rubik Championships, held in Bangkok, Thailand.