You Won’t Believe What Happened to This Diver After Surfacing

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Diver Surfaces Too Fast, Becomes Human Balloon... Still Inflated

In 2013, Peruvian diver Alejandro “Willy” Ramos Martínez made an emergency ascent after a boat snapped his air hose, and he’s been puffed up ever since. Turns out, shooting up from 30 meters without proper decompression turns your chest into a bubble wrap experiment gone wrong. The official term is “chamber sickness,” but it looks more like “stay-puft syndrome.” Doctors still don’t quite know what to do, which, as you’d guess, is not exactly comforting. It’s been over a decade, and Willy is still waiting to deflate, along with our collective hope in medical science.

At a major Iranian tech expo, a pair of so-called “humanoid robots” wowed the crowd, until someone noticed they were just guys in silver spandex and plastic visors. The “AI” featured blinking lights and binary code stickers, which apparently fooled no one with actual Wi-Fi. Social media had a field day, of course. The organizers later admitted the bots were, in fact, actors, which is probably not the breakthrough they had in mind. On the bright side, at least these models didn’t need charging.

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