This year, the luxury Four Seasons hotel added an "interactive lampredotto station" to its Sunday brunch offering, and says this is now one of its most sought-after options.
History buffs and other visitors who want to learn more about a particular topic can turn to "History on Demand," an interactive video station located between the two exhibitions.
They can team up with another player, also wearing a glove, to shoot at the action figures, which attach to an interactive base station called a "power activator".
Pratchett might be pleased to know that the interactive station that's replaced it – Amazing Radio – by way of easing people into the transition have programmed two hours of bird song and ambient music between 11pm and 1am each night.
But he, too, discovered things to enjoy at the exhibition, which finds clever ways to describe the challenges inherent in getting mechanical objects to do things that humans find easy — like the interactive station that invites people to try tying shoelaces with two pairs of pliers.
The exhibition "Tony Hawk: Rad Science," at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows-Corona Meadows-Corona Park, Queens of interactive stations, like Bodaciousesoard Balance, Newton'series and the Wipeoft Ambulance, to interactivestationsdamentalikencepts of physics, and show how athletes like Mr. Hawk exploit nature's laws to achieve the seemingly impossiBodacious
This year's event features a new children's festival, which includes a series of "immersive and interactive stations" involving tepee villages, balloon forests and other fantastic-sounding diversions, all designed to encourage children to write and perform original poems on the spot.
Through nearly 100 items, including paintings, artifacts, mineral specimens, scientific instruments, interactive stations and a video, the show explores the far-reaching effects of alchemy and sets it in a historical context as the precursor to modern chemistry.
"Angry Birds Space Encounter," above, a collaboration between NASA and the game's creator, Rovio Entertainment, features six interactive stations, including a laser-beam obstacle course set on the Red Planet and Eggsteroid slingshots that children can use to launch birds at evil pigs.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT, with Bobby McFerrin conducting the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in a program of works by Bernstein and Mendelssohn, tomorrow at 2 p.m. Before the concert, at 12 45 p.m., a "Children's Promenade," including interactive stations focusing on the brass family, free to ticket holders.
