This swimming pool at Bhakti Park in Mumbai India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of Global Climate Change. It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.
Interior view of the massive offfice of German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler in the Reichskanzlei (Reichs Chancellery, Berlin, Germany, late 1930s or early 1940s. (Photograph by Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures).
Soon, we shall be living in the world of Minority Report, and this “Smart Window” technology Samsung has at CES 2012 is going to help us get there.
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Dr. Elena Bodnar studied the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and found that “if people had had cheap, readily available gas masks in the first hours after the disaster … they may have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which causes radiation.” She also envisions it being useful in terrorist attacks. “You have to be prepared all the time, at any place, at any moment, and practically every woman wears a bra,” she said.
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