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Photo by Iwan Baan The newly opened  Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany is a visually stunning structure from a design perspective, with its gorgeous wave-shaped facade, curved elevators, and its seemingly endless stairs. However, the focal point of the $843 million building is its one of a kind central auditorium designed specifically for a balanced sound throughout the concert hall. As reported by Wired , Swiss architectural firm Herzog and De Meuron worked alongside One to One studio to painstakingly build the coral reef-like structure from 10,000 unique acoustic panels lining the ceiling, walls, and balustrades. The 10,000 panels feature a total of one million �cells,� or divots designed to shape sound within the auditorium. When sound waves hit a panel, the uneven surface either absorbs or scatters them to create a balanced reverberation across the entire auditorium. Herzog and De Meuron collaborated wit...

Ronnie James Dio passed away in 2010 after battling stomach cancer. On Saturday, Germany held their heavy metal Wacken Open Air music festival and fans were stunned when they saw what appeared on the stage. They saw Dio, in hologram form, perform as it yelled out the heavy metal anthem �We Rock.� The Dio hologram also flashed the famous �devil horns� hand gesture that Ronnie made famous.   The group that created the hologram, Eyellusion, came from across multiple music and technical industries and has taken over a year to come to fruition. Their goal was to create a believable hologram of Ronnie Dio that could be used with the band Dio Disciples, a group that formed to keep performing the music of Dio. The band formed shortly after Dio�s death. Wendy Dio, Ronnie�s widow, commented about seeing her late husband on stage once again. �I cried the first time I saw it. It was quite, quite scary. Our crew, when they first saw it at rehearsal, they were in tears. It�s abso...