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March 24, 2015 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment

Changes coming to Innoventions at Epcot

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Major changes are about to take place in both the East and West portions of Innoventions at Epcot as several experiences come to an end. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Disney, Epcot, Walt Disney World Tagged With: attractions, center, closing, east, Epcot, exhibits, featured, great piggy bank adventure, IBM, Innoventions, partnerships, sponsors, think, Vision House, Walt Disney World, west, where's the fire

May 16, 2013 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment

Attractions – The Show – May 16, 2013 – World’s Smallest Film, Princess Merida and more

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Hosts Banks Lee and JeniLynn Knopp bring you this week’s theme park and attraction news. On this week’s episode: [Read more…]

Filed Under: The Attractions Show Tagged With: attractions, ceremony, coronation, diagon alley, Epcot, expansion, film, Florida, fun, Harry Potter, IBM, Innoventions, Magic Kingdom, merida, Motion, news, Orlando, princess, smallest, stop, theme park, think, Travel, Video, Walt Disney World, world's

January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Photo Finds: IBM Think, new bakery in France at Epcot, Splitsville and more – Jan. 18, 2013

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By Kevin Yee

We are all over the map this week, as we bring you IBM Think (which replaced IBM Runtime in Innoventions at Epcot), the new bakery in France at Epcot (which replaced the older, smaller bakery), and Splitsville (which replaced the empty warehouse once home to RideMakerz). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Photo Finds Tagged With: Be Our Guest, Disney, Epcot, IBM, Just for Kids, Kevin Yee, Photo Finds, SeaWorld, Splitsville, think, update

January 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment

IBM Think exhibit now open at Epcot

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IBM has changed up one of their exhibits in Inoventions West at Epcot. The former IBM Smarter Planet and Runtime is gone and in its place is a theater and large touchscreen displays telling about IBM’s past 100 years. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Disney, Epcot, Exhibit, Walt Disney World Tagged With: Epcot, Exhibit, IBM, Innoventions, new, think

February 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Video/Photos: Grand opening held for new SmarterPlanet exhibit in Epcot's Innoventions

IBM recently unveiled a new experiential exhibit at Innoventions at Epcot. SmarterPlanet offers visitors to the park a “behind-the-scenes” glimpse of how technology is helping solve the world’s most complex problems – from reducing road traffic and city crime to improving food safety and local water supplies.

“The new SmarterPlanet experience brings to life the many ways in which IBM technologies are invisibly woven into the way people live, work and play,” said Gary Cohen, IBM General Manager, Global Communications Sector. “The objective is for guests to walk away understanding how forward-thinking solutions can solve our greatest societal problems, and the increasing role technology will play in improving the quality of life for people across the world.”

The exhibit consists of three key areas which demonstrate IBM’s vision for creating a smarter planet:

SmarterPlanet Kiosks
The hands-on interactive kiosks offer guests a “match” game that reveal smarter planet solutions in action. From the same kiosks, guests can take a poll on smarter planet issues and see how their answers compare to those of other guests.

Runtime
Guests are invited to star in their own video game at Runtime. Their first stop is a photo capture station. Here, guests run, jump, and dance as their image is captured to create a personal avatar. Guests then get the chance to play their customized video game and compete against the clock as they journey through a timeline of the history of computing. Runtime players also get the chance to e-mail their customized game and avatar to family and friends. You may recognize this part of the exhibit, as it’s been in operation for just over a year.

Smarter Data Center
Through glass, guests can peek into a fully functioning and highly optimized IBM Smarter Data Center. The Data Center is responsible for running the SmarterPlanet exhibit and also uses less energy than a traditional Data Center. In addition, the Smarter Data Center donates unused computing resources to the World Community Grid to help in various types of medical, humanitarian and environmental research. This project joins together thousands of individual computers worldwide, establishing a large system with massive computational power equivalent to a supercomputer, thereby reducing research time from decades to months.

Filed Under: Disney, Epcot, Exhibit Tagged With: Epcot, game, IBM, Innoventions, Runtime, SmarterPlanet

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