万花筒 2008-10-07&10-08 诺基亚新手机挑战谷歌

In Today’s TECH BYTES, the world’s top cell phone maker¹ takes aim at Apple. Nokia has launched its first touch screen phone to rival the iPhone. The express music phone plays music and videos, stores eight gigs of memory and has a slightly smaller screen than the iPhone. It also falls a little short on functions. Unlike the iPhone, you can’t use two fingers to zoom² in and out of pictures and web pages. The Nokia phones will hit stores before the holidays and sell for about 400 dollars before any subsidies³.

 

One of the Japan’s top cell phone companies is showing off a new concept phone at a major technology show this week. NTT DOCOMO's separate phone is sort of like two devices in one. You can actually break it into two parts, one with a touch screen display, the other with a keypad. The idea is that a user can make a call on one half of the phone while reading E-mail or checking their calendar on the other half. It also means there’s one more thing to lose.

 

Well, just when you thought pretty much everything was connected to the internet, you can add one more thing to that list. Bicycles .Yahoo has launched the first social net-working bicycle. It has a GPS-enabled camera that takes a picture every 60 seconds, tags it with geographical⁴ information and uploads it to a photo sharing website. And there are 20 of these bikes on the road right now, but Yahoo is planning on giving away more through a contest.

 

And finally a British inventor has developed a device he claims, “turns cheap supermarket wine into vintage wine in just 30 minutes.” The device looks like an ice bucket. But its creator claims it recreates the effects of decades of aging, using ultrasound technology and it’s not just for wine, it’s supposed to work for any alcohol that it is better when aged⁵. The man behind this miracle machine says it even makes alcohol easier to absorb and that virtually eliminates hangovers.

 

For information of all these stories, log on the technology page of abcnews.com. Those are your TECH BYTES. I’m Jeremy Hubbard.

 

1 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

2 zoom   

n.急速上升；v.突然扩大，急速上升

参考例句：

• The airplane's zoom carried it above the clouds.飞机的陡直上升使它飞到云层之上。
• I live near an airport and the zoom of passing planes can be heard night and day.我住在一个飞机场附近，昼夜都能听到飞机飞过的嗡嗡声。

3 subsidies   

n.补贴，津贴，补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
• Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 geographical   

adj.地理的；地区(性)的

参考例句：

• The current survey will have a wider geographical spread.当前的调查将在更广泛的地域范围內进行。
• These birds have a wide geographical distribution.这些鸟的地理分布很广。

5 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。