a striking poster that delivers a powerful environmental message with minimalistic elegance.
Before sleek VR headsets and binge-watching on phones, Hugo Gernsback imagined something straight out of sci-fi personal television glasses. Antennas sticking out, bulky box on the face but the idea? Weirdly familiar. What’s funny is how futuristic this must have felt in 1963 and how normal the concept feels now. We went from this to AirPods AR glasses and people watching entire shows on tiny screens without blinking Goes to show The tech might look ridiculous at first but the idea behind it is usually way ahead of its time.
Behind the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, there's a structure buried 50 feet underground that has been permanently flooded for at least 2,000 years. The ancient Greek geographer Strabo described descending into it and finding it already filled with water.
Engineers attempted to pump 500 gallons per minute out of it. The water level didn't drop. Modern studies found the water comes from multiple underground sources, deep aquifers and ancient Nile water that feed the structure continuously.
Inside are massive granite pillars weighing up to 100 tonnes, joined with precise stone engineering specifically designed to survive in a permanently wet environment. There's a 15-metre water channel running through it. The layout deliberately blocks visitor access and behaves nothing like a tomb, it functions more like a hydraulic system.
Egyptologists attribute it to Seti I around 1280 BC. But the construction style is megalithic, undecorated, using stones ten times heavier than anything else Seti built and matches the Valley Temple at Giza, not the ornate temple sitting directly above it.
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Elmer and Elsie, the tortoise robots created by William Grey Walter, were the precursors for what later became the style of BEAM robotics, which focuses on reaction based behaviors that mimic biological organisms. Thanks to that we got the modern robotic vacuum cleaner robots, for example!