Gandhinagar: Ahead of the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019, preparations are in full swing at Science City in Ahmedabad to put on a display a mega-exhibition of Futuristic Technologies as well as an exhibition on Space.

Starting from the 17th of January, Science City in Ahmedabad will hold an exhibition on Futuristic technologies that have real world commercial applications.The exhibition will provide a glimpse of the advanced technologies that were once considered the stuff of science fiction, and the futuristic technologies demonstration will showcase the smartgadgets that control every facet of home, self-driving vehicles, facial and biometricidentification systems, precision robots and drones, giving everyone aglimpse of the high-tech reality we’re moving towards.These technologies will change the landscape of the world, as we know it today.

Some of the world’s most renowned tech companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Phillipsetc will put on display and demonstrate their research projects that they have been developing. Futuristic technologies that have applications in the healthcare sector, agriculture sector and well as urban mobility devices and lifestyle tech devices will be on display for the visitors to experience for themselves.

The exhibition will be an opportunity to engage, educate and experience the new age and future technologies such as, Microsoft Halo Lens, IBM Watson, Google Li-fi, Amazon Alexa, lifesaving U-Safe that can drive itself around in the water by remote control to save any life, Smart HomeAutomation, Mixed Reality/Augmented Reality, Robotic use cases for industrial and consumer applications, Holographic Technology, Companion robots, indigenous space suit and supercomputers and so on.

The Futuristic Technology exhibition will also showcase the advances technology has made in the agriculture sector.The concept of container farming,modular indoor farms, 100% Biodegradable substitute to Plastic, Advanced DrivingAssisted Solutions, Smart Factory concept by Panasonic, Hyperloop mobility, SmartAgriculture, Automation Technology, Li- Fi by Philips, AI-Health Care Solution, Drone(Surveillance and security) and many more products and technological platforms will be available at the Science City. The demonstration of futuristic technologies will help the students, entrepreneurs, start-ups andcitizenslearn the technological trends and will encourage innovation towards such technological verticals.

Along with the Futuristic Tech devices, the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat is also putting on display an exhibition on Space. The exhibition will cover an area of more than 9000 sqft. With the theme of the Vibrant Gujarat summit being “Shaping a New India” the aim of the exhibition at Science City is to stimulate curiosity and innovation among young minds for the ‘New India’ mission as laidout by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. In his Independence Day address to the nation in August earlier this year, Prime Minster Modi also set a challenge to the nation to complete a manned space before 2022, India’s 75th anniversary of independence.

Titled Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration, the exhibitionis designed to be a breath-taking showcase thatwill take the students and visitors on a journey to explore the frontiers of space. BeyondPlanet Earth features a series of immersive environments and dioramas that offer a glimpseat what the next 50 to 100 years of space exploration may bring.
The Exhibition will be divided into amazing different sections, including Solar System Theatre, Returningto the Moon, Exploring Asteroids, Voyaging to Mars, Reaching the Outer Solar System andBeyond Our Solar System.
The exhibition has been produced by American Museum of Natural History, New York(amnh.org) in collaboration with MadaTech: The Israel National Museum of Science, Technology and Space, Haifa, Israel. The Space Exhibition has been curated by NASA.

The exhibition and the exposure would be a good opportunity for students to learn what iswithin our reach and what might come up on the horizon in the years to come.

The Beyond Planet Earth exhibition will be furnishedwith life-size and scale models of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover, Vostok1, Sputnik1, Moonboots, a lunar elevator, an expandable Moon habitat and more.

The history and science of space exploration will be on view in this immersive exhibition that will feature more than 20 scientific objects, including a Russian space glove and lunar tire, life-size models, dioramas, and videos. Interactive displays will allow visitors to smell a scent station thatmimics what the Moon smells like, simulate a liquid mirror telescope, deflect asteroids in adigital kiosk, learn about terraforming, and even fly over Mars!. The Exhibition on Space Exploration will be inaugurated on the 17th of January and will be on display till the 11th of May, giving the science and technology enthusiasts an opportunity to witness the developments on the frontiers of the science and also to explore all the new development that is happening at the science city.