The hundred thousandth visitor was a member of the Wang family, a mother and father with child accompanied by a grandmother. Deputy director of the Hungarian pavilion Katalin Szöllősi and exhibition director Mária Visy presented the father with a bottle of Hungarian wine, the mother with a CD of Hungarian music, the grandmother with a bouquet of flowers, and the child with a 3D postcard of the Gomboc, the pavilion?s main attraction.
The Gomboc (pronounced 'goemboets') is a self-righting object created by two Hungarian inventors. The Gomboc rights itself when in stable equilibrium, much like a roly-poly toy, but because of its shape, not because of its weight. The Gomboc is thus the first known homogenous object with one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.
