Computer scientist Shwetak Patel and his team are developing new sensing systems. The initial focus was really around energy and water monitoring.They built a new generation of smart sensors that monitor electronic interference on a homes power line

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(六月)

Breaking a sweat? Researchers are creating a skin patch that can test those droplets while people exercise and beam results to their smartphones, possibly a new way to track health and fitness. 大汗淋漓?研究人员正在研制一种皮肤贴片,

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

More than 82 millions phones are damaged each year after being dropped down the toilet, into swimming pools or lost at the beach. 每年都有超过8200万部手机因为掉进厕所、泳池或在海滩上丢失而损坏。 A number of waterproof ha

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

For internet addicts, it could be the ultimate way to stay in touch - an entire apartment turned into a giant, online screen. The walls show Facebook updates, and life-sized friends during video chats. It can also be controlled from anywhere - even b

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语阅读理解

双语:小心老板可能用这种方式监视你 《每日电讯报》的记者们发现,他们的工位上突然安装了一些用于监视在岗情况的个人传感器。尽管监控员工的一举一动,早已成为职场的常态,但如此

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

As if WWDC didnt give the Apple AAPL -0.28% bloggers enough to write about, Friday brought a fresh round of rumors about what everybody is calling the iWatch. By Saturday, Techmeme had collected 68 stories on the topic. You can ignore 65 of them. The

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英语

There was a day, about 10 years ago, when I asked a friend to hold a baby dinosaur robot upside down. 大概10年前的一天,我让一个朋友头朝下地握持一个小恐龙机器人。 It was this toy called a Pleo that I had ordered, and I wa

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科技篇

Well, I was born with a rare visual condition called achromatopsia, which is total color blindness, 我出生在一个色彩极少的世界,世界只有明暗之分,这叫做全色盲 so I've never seen color, 所以我不知道什么是颜色, a

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

We either draw in a liquid sample, 我们收集液体样本, or we can actually take a solid core from the wall. 或者我们从墙体上直接采集固体岩芯标本。 No hands at the wheel. 这一过程无需人来遥控。 This is all behavior

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲商业篇

You need an AUV, an autonomous underwater vehicle. 你需要个AUV,一个自行式水下航行器。 It needs to be one smart puppy, able to navigate and make decisions on its own in an alien ocean. 它必须很聪明,能够自己导航在陌生的

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲商业篇

Heat Sensor Has Snaky Sensitivity敏感如蛇的热传感器 One of the most exquisite heat sensors in the worldits not in some government lab. It's in the head of a snake. The pit viper, to be specific. 世界上有一种最精敏的热传感器,它

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年Scientific American(六)月

When the Apple tree is shaken, the effect is felt in the lower branches the myriad companies supplying the hundreds of parts that go into a smartphone. 当苹果公司(Apple)这棵大树颤动时,下面的枝条为智能手机提供数以百计部件

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Details about Samsung's next big smartwatch have been trickling out for weeks. But now a new report gives us the most detailed look yet Samsung's next wearable. 关于三星下一代智能手表的细节已流传数周。但现下有一份新报告向我

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

One of Japan's megabanks, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, showcased a robot bank teller on 13 April at its down-town Tokyo branch in the hope that the multilingual robot will help foreign customers during the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. 4月13日,日本银行巨

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Four years ago, James Young's life changed for ever in a freak accident when he fell under a train. 四年前一场诡异的意外事故中,詹姆斯杨摔到了列车下,人生因而彻底改变。 As well as sustaining multiple injuries - inclu

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The pull off this dunk, wireless motion sensor data, 根据无限运动传感器数据,拉文扣篮时, reveals that Lavine initiates his leap using an optimal 90 degree knee flexion, 准备起跳动作中,膝盖会达到最佳角度90度弯曲状

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 篮球英文堂

China on track to 12 operational J-20stealth fighters in 2017 for airpower edge over other countries in Asia 中国计划在2017年部署12架J-20隐身战机以取得对其他亚洲国家的空中优势 In July 2016,the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Mac computer 1.Mac computers cant get virusesMac 苹果电脑不会感染病毒 Yes, Apple computers are susceptible to malware, too. Apple used to brag its computers aren't as vulnerable as Windows PCs to viruses, but the company quickly changed its

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

This tiny sensor mounted on a bumblebee is monitoring all kinds of important environmental data. This is the brainchild of a group of researchers at the University of Washington. What made us start the aim of this was our prior work on building insec

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2019年(一月)

BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists will focus on developing new quake-monitoring equipment and warning technologies, according to an agreement signed Wednesday between the country's earthquake monitoring authorities and top research inst

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻