科学美国人60秒 SSS 2013-10-18
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(十)月
英语课
This is Scientific Americans 60-second science. I am Karen Hopkin. It will take just a minute.
Thanks for the Wifi we can watch TV, play games and check email from the comfort of the couch. And soon we maybe able to repurpose our Wifi signals so we can turn off the coffeemaker or turn on the TV with simple flick 1 of the finger from anywhere in the house. Researchers describe their system called Wisee at the International Conference on Mobile Computing 2 and Networking. The idea is similar in concept the X-box kernet which uses cameras to recognize the game players movements and translate them into onscreen. But Wisee works without cameras instead it uses the ambient wireless 3 signals put out by our smart phones, laptops, routers and tablets. When we move we alter the pattern of these Wifi signals, the Wisee receivers detected those disturbances 4 and interpret the motions that caused them like waving or swinging your fists. Of 900 guster tested Wisee could identified 94%. The users resigned the particular motion to specific gadget 5 the motion does not have to be the one work in the real world. So if all goes well, you may actually be able to pouch 6 the lights out.
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific Americans 60-second science. I am Karen Hopkin.
1 flick
n.快速的轻打，轻打声，弹开；v.轻弹，轻轻拂去，忽然摇动
- He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
- By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下，将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
2 computing
n.计算
- to work in computing 从事信息处理
- Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。
3 wireless
adj.无线的；n.无线电
- There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
- Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。
4 disturbances
n.骚乱( disturbance的名词复数 )；打扰；困扰；障碍
- The government has set up a commission of inquiry into the disturbances at the prison. 政府成立了一个委员会来调查监狱骚乱事件。
- Extra police were called in to quell the disturbances. 已调集了增援警力来平定骚乱。