Doughnut adjust your set
HAVE you ever seen anything on television that made you shout or shake your fist in anger at the screen? Televisions are, of course, unable to respond to such reactions. But that could be about to change. Controlling your television and other home entertainment devices using voice commands or gestures is starting to become possible thanks to a new generation of controllers.
Consider, for example, the controller that went on sale last month with Nintendos Wii games console. In place of the usual combination of buttons and joysticks, the Wii has a motionsensitive controller. The console can determine how the controller is moving in space and what it is pointing at, and uses that information to control what is happening on screen. Depending on the game, the controller becomes a warriors sword or a golf club.
For some games, the controller connects up via a cable to a second, smaller handset called the Nunchuk after the weapon favoured by Bruce Lee in his martial arts movies . It is then possible to use one controller for movement, and the other to fire weapons or use items. The number of buttons on both controllers has been reduced to a minimum, as Nintendo hopes to draw in new customers who find existing games consoles too complicated. But whether the Wii will introduce a generation of grandmothers to the joys of karate games remains to be seen.
This living room overload is likely to get worse as telecoms operators launch a new generation of television over broadband services, using a technology called IPTV. This will make possible thousands of channels, downloadable programs and films, plus messaging, internet access and games. It will also involve the biggest and most complicated controllers ever seen. The experience isnt as good as it could be, says Michael Cai of Parks Associates, a consultancy. So some companies believe a new approach is needed.
Other companies have looked at using speech based controllers in the living room. One firm, Promptu, developed a voice control system for American cable operators and tested it in conjunction with Motorola, which makes set top boxes. But it has now decided to reposition the technology as a voice based navigation system for mobile phones. A simpler approach is taken by the In Voca voice activated remote control. It is a universal remote control that can recognise 50 separate commands spoken by up to four separate users, from lower volume to Cartoon Network .
A recent entry to the field is Apple Computer, a firm renowned for designing elegant, easy to use products. In 2007 it will launch a new device, called the iTV, that acts as a bridge between a television and a computer. It has a deliberately simple remote control that, like Apples iconic iPod music player, involves just one button and one wheel. Steve Jobs, the companys boss, boasts that it is very Apple . Might his company be the one to solve the remote control confusion?
大学英语六级作文现象分析型题目的写作模板
四六级专家辅导冲刺题型与作文预测
热荐四六级阅读不看文章怎样答题
英语四六级最全考前提示物品准备和考前准备
熟悉考点应信心百倍
长短句的主题句
邀请名师徐可风指导6月英语四级的冲刺备考
英语四六级完形变翻译更重视应用能力
2014年6月英语四级作文点评之偏而不难
2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题点评
新大学英语四级考试之实力与技巧忠告
2014年6月大学英语四六级考前的必备宝典
专家支招怎样提英语四六级高阅读能力
2014年四六级的最后冲刺提分法狠抓作文
名师点评2014年6月英语四级翻译的教育公平
大学英语六级CET6
大学英语新四级考试听力部分应对方案
新英语四级是不是洪水猛兽
英语四六级写作必得高分的六项基本原则
2014年6月四六级考前一天你还可以做这些事
冲刺大学英语六级翻译题的高分技巧
名师解读英语六级阅读的难点及原因
名师点津大学英语四级题型变化和对策
名师指导冲刺新老四级比较的分析报告
最后12小时破解四六级阅读理解如何做观点态度题
英语四六级作文命题六大趋势剖析
备考六月英语四六级的冲刺策略
六级词汇考试应试要点怎样应对各类词型考题
点评英语四级最新样卷题型
四级听力复合听写题的应对和答题时间安排
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |