Frommer's Review
Innoventions East, behind Spaceship Earth and to the left as you enter the park, features the House of Innoventions. It's a preview of tomorrow's smart house, but many of its products are already on the market (at astronomical prices). Its refrigerator has an Internet-savvy computer that can make a grocery list and place the order. A smart picture frame can store and send photos to other smart frames. And its toilet has a seat warmer, automatic lid opener and closer, and a sprayer and blow dryer that eliminate the need for toilet paper if you're worldly. The Internet Zone profiles tomorrow's online games for kids, including laser tag with Disney characters. Opportunity City is the latest addition and features an online game, Hot Shot Business. Across the plaza at Innoventions West, crowds flock to Video Games of Tomorrow, which has nearly three dozen game stations. Where's the Fire, geared to smaller kids, teaches the basics of fire safety and demonstrates how firefighters fight fires with the help of a pump truck.
Note: The newish Underwriters Laboratories exhibit at Innoventions East, the Test the Limits Lab, has six kiosks that let kids and fun-loving adults try out a variety of products. In one, you can pull a rope attached to a hammer that crashes into a TV screen to see if it's shatter resistant. In another, you can push a button that releases a magnet that falls onto a firefighter's helmet.
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