b.b. the Wonderbot
I took a tour of the Sony Wonder technology lab today. They have a really nice public space for eating your lunch, and a cute little cafe. Outside, you're greeted by their telepresence robot. Later in the tour, however, you see the man behind the machine and realize that it's all a fake out, equivalent to the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum's two-way mirror. It's a free museum, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but the exhibits were pretty lame. You have to use a bar-coded card throughout the place and at the end you get a certificate of the exhibits you've "completed" (like their Sony Playstation games). This really threw me, since we also give out certificates at the library for completion of the technology training courses. There's some educational value to some of the exhibits, but overall, it seems as though what they're really training you in is Sony consumerism. As you come out, the exhibit feeds right into the Sony store.
Comments
Do they actually feature products you can buy or is it all futuristic stuff?
Posted by: Ari Moore | October 26, 2004 9:27 AM
They have a Sonystyle store with consumer electronics.
Posted by: Jenny Baum | October 26, 2004 4:22 PM
Was there anything tempting or was it all just ridiculous?
Posted by: Ari Moore | October 27, 2004 9:20 AM
Mostly ridiculous, although the public space and the sonystyle store's television display (downstairs) were pretty nice.
Posted by: Jenny Baum | October 27, 2004 10:07 AM
That place was so awesome. That B.B. wonederbot was so cool. The the displays are very nice and the activities are awesome!!!!!
Posted by: Brittany Board | February 10, 2006 9:43 PM