首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Some products respond to consumers’ needs; others, like Sony’s airboard, seek to create them. Like sending e-mails from the pool
Some products respond to consumers’ needs; others, like Sony’s airboard, seek to create them. Like sending e-mails from the pool
admin
2014-01-07
43
问题
Some products respond to consumers’ needs; others, like Sony’s airboard, seek to create them. Like sending e-mails from the pool, or curling up in bed with your favorite sitcom. This futuristic apparatus combines the functions of a television, a DVD player and the Internet into a portable tablet the size of a place mat. If it catches on, it could change the concept of being digital at home.
At 1.5 kg, the airboard is light enough to carry anywhere in the house, and can send and receive data wirelessly from a base station hooked up to home-entertainment equipment. A 10.4-inc.(26-cm)LCD screen delivers vivid moving images or can serve as a digital photo album, and a touch-panel display eliminates the need for a keyboard. Sony, which began selling the device in Japan late last year, praises it as the Walkman of the information age. "It is amazing," says company president Kunitake Ando, who loftily describes the device as a gateway connecting the home to the outside world and eventually linking all appliances within. "The wireless environment will become quite common pretty soon."
I tried out the airboard in my Tokyo apartment, and I have to admit: it’s way cool. First of all, airboarding is easy. I didn’t crack the instruction manual once to get the thing set up—and this is from someone who has trouble finding the "record" button on the VCR. Relaxing on my balcony, I could call up the airboard’s on-screen remote control and start playing video. By pressing another button, I could Net surf or check my e-mail account, while a split screen let me simultaneously watch my movie. The airboard’s base station—the size of a shoe box—doubles as a stand and battery charger. There is a slot for inserting a Sony memory stick, the gum-stick-sized cassette used to store photos and other digital files.
But the airboard is not for everybody. At $1,065, it costs as much as a laptop but isn’t meant for serious computing. Checking e-mail is easy, but a 56-kbps modem makes for pretty slow surfing. The touch panel is fine for sending quick messages, but pushing the on-screen buttons is tedious for anything longer.
The function of the eliminated keyboard is complemented by
选项
A、a touch-panel.
B、a remote control.
C、a base station.
D、an instruction manual.
答案
A
解析
第2段第2句中的a touch-panel display eliminates the need for a keyboard表明因为有了触摸屏,键盘就不再需要了,可见本题应选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/LCFK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Wherecanpeoplefindthetallestredwoodtrees?
Whatisthesignificanceofthenewlydiscoveredfossils?
Mostworthwhilecareersrequiresomekindofspecializedtraining.Ideally,therefore,thechoiceofa(n)【C1】______shouldbema
Mostworthwhilecareersrequiresomekindofspecializedtraining.Ideally,therefore,thechoiceofa(n)【C1】______shouldbema
Mostworthwhilecareersrequiresomekindofspecializedtraining.Ideally,therefore,thechoiceofa(n)【C1】______shouldbema
Therecitalwasputoffbecausewe______arecitalwithoutMary,whohadalwaysbeenplayingaleadingrole.
AccordingtotheDNAanalysis,mostNeanderthalsinWesternEuropediedoutasearlyas
Whilethoseearningmaster’s,doctoral,orprofessionaldegreesstillearnmoreduringtheircareersthanthosewithlesseducat
Atatimewhentheworldisshortofcausesforcelebration,hereisacandidate;withinthenextfewmonthswomenwillcrossth
Everyonewouldhaveheardthefamousphrase"Angerisoneshortofdanger".Itisanage-oldadage,butitis(1)______andstill
随机试题
既能驱虫,又能行气消积的药物是
急性心肌梗死合并室性期前收缩应首选
房地产登记的目的和意义包括()。
【2009—3】题6~10:地处西南某企业35kV电力用户具有若干10kV变电所,所带负荷等级为三级,其供电系统图如图所示。已知条件如下:(1)35kV线路电源测短路容量为500MVA;(2)35kV电源线路长15公里;(3)10kV馈电线路20回,
若在迈克尔逊干涉仪的可动反射镜M移动0.620mm过程中,观察到干涉条纹移动了2300条,则所用光的波长为()mm。
简述《幼儿园教育指导纲要(试行)》中艺术教育的指导要点。
人们常用“血浓于水”来说亲情。确实,【C1】______,不必伴随惊天动地的事件,它永远存在于我们生活中,像水一样不可或缺,但永远比水深浓。因为比水多了一份情意,一份鲜红的情意。上小学时,我比较任性。一天,我回到家中,感觉非常渴。于是,我急匆匆地
RichardSatava,programmanagerforadvancedmedicaltechnologies,hasbeenadrivingforcebringingvirtualrealitytomedicine
DVDrentalkiosks(售货亭)fromRedboxandBlockbusterseemtobepoppinguponeverycornerthesedays,buthome-videomarketanalys
HappinessandSadnessHappinessandsadnessaretwomostbasicandfamiliarfeelingforhumanbeings.Recently,peoplehave
最新回复
(
0
)