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　　托福阅览背景常识：会飞的家私

　　Imagine a future where your furniture flies, reacting and responding to your everyday needs. You could have an almost-sentient desk that jets off when it feels you’re over-working, or a remote control that floats over when you think you’ve lost it.

　　幻想一下，将来你的家私会飞，还能满意与回应平时需要。当你作业过量时，智能书桌会主动飞离;当你以为遥控器丢了，它会主动浮如今你眼前。

　　In an interactive project dubbed “L’evolved,” Harshit Agrawal and Sang-Won Leigh, two researchers from the MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group, are exploring how to make everyday objects transform into “flying smart agents.”

　　来自MIT媒介流界面小组的两位研讨者哈什特·阿格拉瓦尔与桑王·利，正探求怎么让平时用品转变为“会飞的智能物件”。

　　“We really look at this as a way of making the objects around us kind of speak with us,” Agrawal said. “In the sense that they somehow know what they are doing, so they might prevent you from doing something wrong or light up your path in a dark environment.”

　　阿格拉瓦尔说：“事实上，咱们期望能让身边的物品与自个对话，即物品从某种程度上了解你的需要，因而它们能防止你做出不当行为，或许懂得在黑私自为你亮起一盏灯。”

　　So far, their project features drones acting as flying tables that adjust to your height, fly away once you’re done, or auto-eject if you start using the wrong pen on your homework. They also have a lampshade drone that hovers above you, focusing light on where you need it when you’re reading a book in the dark.

　　到目前为止，这项以智能翱翔为特色的家私方案中，有会飞的桌子能主动适应你的身高，一旦作业完结，它会主动飞离;有当你做作业时拿错了会主动弹开的钢笔;还有悬浮在你身边的灯罩，它会主动在黑私自为你供给亮光。

　　To power their flying furniture, the pair used a motion capture system where a camera tracks everything in the room—including the person and the drone, which receives commands from the computer.

　　为了疾速推动翱翔家私，两位研讨者使用了动态捕捉技能，让摄像机对房间的每一个旮旯进行追寻，包含主人和该家私，然后经过电脑接受指令。

　　“The computer knows where the drone wants to go by tracking where the person is,” explained Leigh. “We are feeding that data from the computer to the drone so that it can move smoothly to the required position.”

　　利解释道：“电脑经过追寻人的方位，就能知晓翱翔的家私应去往何处。咱们将电脑中的数据传输给家私，使其精确移动到指定方位。”

　　Currently, the duo faces two main challenges: stabilizing the drone, and feeding it a regular power supply (at the moment, it’s connected to a power socket).

　　如今，两位研讨者面临着两大挑战：增强翱翔家私的稳定型，并完成充电功能(如今它们仍依靠电源插座)。

　　Drones can’t support much weight yet, so the team opted for a paper tabletop. They soon found, however, that if they placed the tabletop directly on top of the drone, it blocked airflow. To solve this problem, they made the distance between the drone base and its paper tabletop greater so it could keep flying.

　　翱翔家私还无法接受过多的重量，因而研讨团队选用了纸质台面。但是他们很快发现，假如直接将台面搁到翱翔家私上，会阻碍翱翔。为了解决这个疑问，他们加大了翱翔家私底座和纸质台面的距离，以确保它能翱翔。

　　Agrawal said that in the future, they could optimize stability by replacing a hovering desk with one that parks in front of users when they need it, then clears off when the user has finished their task.

　　阿格拉瓦尔以为，在将来，他们将优化翱翔家私的功能，用翱翔的桌子替代用户面前静态的桌子，当使用者作业完结后，桌子能主动脱离。

　　Ultimately, the researchers are set on enchanting everyday appliances so that they surpass their limitations as static objects, and have a more socially collaborative relationship with their human owners.

　　终究，研讨者将让平时家电也法力四射，它们将逾越传统静态物品的限制，与人类树立更好的协作关系

　　Vocabulary

　　sentient: 有豪情的;有感受力的

　　lampshade: 灯罩

　　power socket: 电源插座