Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 11:59am to 6:59pm
NYU Polytechnic Institute, MetroTech Plaza
5 MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Directions: http://worldsciencefestival.com/venues/nyu_polytechnic_institute_metrotech_plaza
Cost: Free
For all ages
The World Science Festival transforms a picturesque quad in downtown Brooklyn into a staging ground for future-shaping innovations springing to life in labs and workshops worldwide. Watch the first public demonstration of quantum levitation; get lost in the robot petting zoo; play with the world’s lightest material. Robots + DIY video games + flying mechanical birds + experimental music + the world’s most inventive minds. It’s an unforgettable afternoon of amazing demos, challenges, and interactive fun.
ROBOT PETTING ZOO
Don’t feed the robots. From flying mechanical birds to robotic fish and autonomous snake machines, the myriad of species of world-class robots infesting Innovation Square will blow your mind.
INNOVATION ARCADE
The Game Innovation Lab of NYU-Poly and the DIY gaming collective Babycastles have cooked up some wildly interactive experiences: Virtual sword fights; a 3D space quest inside a mobile planetarium; games that make you contort like Twister; cooperative dance-off challenges with synchronicity sensors; and much more. At Innovation Square, video games have jumped the console and run amok across the plaza.
WOW
All day, across the plaza and under the trees, see prototypes and never-before-seen technologies from premiere research labs and legendary institutions—as well as from backrooms, hackspaces, and DIY garages. These are next-generation innovations that are, in a word, bonkers. Reality-bending quantum levitation? Check. Genetic engineering kits? Yep. Powerful lasers? Pew pew!
TALKS
Conversations, panel discussions, and elevator pitches from the edges of innovation, featuring some of the world’s most inventive minds. All day, from 1 – 7 pm in Dibner Auditorium. FREE
PERFORMANCES
On the main outdoor stage: experimental digital music and circuit-bending performances; innovator interviews and Q/As; Video game-enhanced YaMove! DanceOff.
Schedule and details coming soon to website.
For detailed info and schedule, go to:
http://worldsciencefestival.com/events/innovation_square
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