The IIT-Bombay is gearing up for its annual Techfest, which is scheduled to be held from January 2 to January 4. Considered as Asia's largest science and technology festival, which is patronised by the Unesco and Unicef, the free-for-all event will host some of the most captivating shows from around the world in its segment Technoholix.
Technoholix hopes to bring forth a perfect blend of science and technology filled with pure entertainment providing a visual feast for the audience. Justifying its name, it promises to leave the audience addicted to technology and has witnessed 3D projection mapping musical first time in India, bubble artists, fire dancers, pyrotechnicians, Asia's only robot dance show, winners of Denmark, America, Netherland's got Talent, world's best electric violinist and many others.
This year it offers the world premiere of the 3D Mapping Show by the renowned Austrian Flow Motion Dance Company; a combination of pyrotechnics and dance set over enthralling music; acrobatics, and dances that use sound, light and silhouettes. There will also be virtual flight simulators and a virtual gaming experience with 3D stereoscopic view.
The festival will host series of lectures by several eminent personalities, including Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, president of Global Research Alliance and former the former director general of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and R Chidambaram, a condensed matter physicist and nuclear scientist, currently serving as the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India.
With the motive of displaying advance technology & attracting students from engineering background to pursue their career in Indian army, the Techfest will exhibit BMP-2 Tanks, popularly nicknamed "Nasten'ka" (Nastya, Anastasia) by Russians, a 152mm, 52 calibre gun, a 20-foot model of INS Vikrant and scaled down models of ships and submarines.
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