The Tech is designed as an interactive technology center in which visitors can participate in various hands-on experiments that help them understand the concepts behind technologies such as semiconductor fabrication, earthquake detection, and electricity.
Demos range from piloting a small remote submarine to performing a mock endoscopic surgery.
It's a fun place for adults and a fabulous place to get kids excited about science. The thing that struck me most forcibly about the museum was the limited representation of photonics. Granted, Silicon Valley is the heart of the computer and lithographic revolution, but it's also a hotbed of photonics. As near as I could tell, the only other representations of photonic technology were an infrared camera and laser-based voice transmission. It got me thinking about how important it is that we as an industry promote our technology.