The Magic Io Personal Digital Pen

1 Check out the io Personal Digital Pen launched by Logitech：It’s a magic pen that can store everything you write and transfer it to your computer. And you don’t have to lug a hand-held device along with you for it to

2 Logitech’s technology works like this：The pen writes normally, using normal ballpoint pen ink2. But while you are writing, a tiny camera inside the pen is also taking 100 snapshots per second of what you are doing3, mapping your writing via a patchwork of minute dots printed on the paper. All this information—the movement of your pen on the paper, basically — is then stored digitally inside the pen, whether you are writing notes or drawing complex diagrams. You can store up to 40 pages worth of doodles in the pen’s memory. As far as you are concerned4, you are just using a normal pen.

3 It is only when you drop the pen into its PC-connected cradle that the fun begins. Special software on your PC will figure out what you have done, and begin to download any documents you have written since the last time it was there. Depending on whether you have ticked certain boxes on the special notepad, it can also tell whether the document is destined to be an e-mail, a “to do” task, or a diagram to be ed into a word-processing document. Once the documents are downloaded you can view them, print them out or convert them to other formats.

4 The io Personal Digital Pen is a neat and simple solution to the problem of storing, sharing and retrieving handwritten notes, as well as for handling diagrams, pictures and other non-text doodling. You don’t have to carry a laptop along with you. All you have to do is just whip out the pen and the special paper and you are off5.

5 It is a great product because it does not force you to work differently—walking around with a screen strapped to your arm, or carrying with you extra bits and pieces. The pen is light and works like a normal pen if you need it to, while the special notepads look and feel like notepads. The only strange looks will be from people who are curious why you are writing with a cigar.

6 The io Personal Digital Pen also has potential elsewhere. FedEx6, for example, is introducing a version of the pen so that customers can fill out forms by hand — instead of punching letters into cumbersome devices. Once that data is digital more or less anything can be done with it — transferring it wirelessly to a central computer, for example, or via a hand-phone. Doctors could transmit their prescriptions direct to pharmacies, reducing fraud; policemen could send their reports back to the station, reducing paperwork.

詞匯：

lug 吃力地?cái)y帶 snapshot快照 patchwork 拼湊的東西，雜絵

doodle 信手寫就的資料 cradle 座，支架 download 下載

tick 打上小記號(hào) notepad 記事本 destined 預(yù)定的

laptop 筆記本電腦，膝上電腦 whip 猛地拔出 strap 用帶扣住

cumbersome 麻煩的

pharmacy 藥房

注釋：

you don’t have to lug a hand-held device along with you for it to work：to work是動(dòng)詞不定式，用作目的狀語(yǔ)，修飾lugb for it是work的邏輯主語(yǔ)。it指代io Personal Digital Pen。

pen ink：圓珠筆墨水

tiny camera inside the pen is also taking 100 snapshots per second of what you are doing：is also taking 100 snapshots和of what you are doing之間插入了per second。

far as you are concerned：就你而言

5.…you are off：……你就能開(kāi)始工作了

：聯(lián)邦快遞公司

練習(xí)：

2 _________.

3 _________.

5 _________.

6 _________.

A A Friendly and Convenient Device

B Ways to Download the Stored Information

C Examples of Other Potential Applications of the Io Pen

D Customers’ Passion for the Io Pen

E FedEx the First User of the Io Pen

F Working Principles of the Io Personal Digital Pen

is no need to learn how to use the io Personal Digital Pen because _________.

you want to download what you have done with the magic pen, _________.

magic pen is particularly convenient when you work away from home or office because _________.

matter what you write or draw, _________

A you don’t have to carry your laptop along

B the information will be shown digitally on the pen

C FedEx has special software to store your information

D it works like an ordinary pen

E you simply place the pen into its computer-connected cradle

F the movement of your pen is recorded digitally inside the pen

答案與題解：

第二段介紹神奇筆的工作原理。筆內(nèi)裝有一個(gè)攝像頭，把寫的字或畫的圖轉(zhuǎn)換為數(shù)碼，存儲(chǔ)在筆內(nèi)的記憶裝置里。

第三段介紹把神奇筆存儲(chǔ)的信息下載到電腦中的過(guò)程，其中很重要的一個(gè)設(shè)備是將筆與電腦相連接的cradle(筆座)。

第五段介紹神奇筆的優(yōu)越性，使用的方式和使用普通筆一樣，不用攜帶顯示屏，不用帶附件。所以，這段的內(nèi)容可以概括為A friendly and convenient device。

最后一段列舉了有可能使用神奇筆的其他地方。

文章中多處都提到the io Personal Digital Pen用起來(lái)很方便，普通的筆怎么用，the io Personal Digital Pen也怎么用。因此，it works like an ordinary pen是答案。

download和使用cradle的內(nèi)容可在第三段第一句、第二句中找到。

題干中的convenient和when you work away from home or office提示我們要選A。第五段第一句說(shuō)，外出時(shí)不用攜帶顯示屏或附件。

第二段第三句是選F的依據(jù)。

譯文：神奇的io私人數(shù)字筆

仔細(xì)看看由Logitech公司發(fā)明的io私人數(shù)字筆吧。這是一種神奇的筆?？梢詫⒛銓懙乃袞|西儲(chǔ)存下來(lái)并轉(zhuǎn)換到計(jì)算機(jī)上，而你在使用這種數(shù)字筆時(shí)卻不必?cái)y帶手持設(shè)備。

Logitech技術(shù)的工作原理如下：這種筆使用一種普通的圓珠筆墨水，和平常一樣寫字。但是當(dāng)你寫字時(shí)，筆內(nèi)的一個(gè)極小的攝像頭也在以每秒鐘100張的速度對(duì)你所寫的內(nèi)容進(jìn)行快速拍攝，通過(guò)印在紙上的'小點(diǎn)塊拼出你所寫的內(nèi)容。然后，無(wú)論你是記筆記還是畫復(fù)雜圖表，所以的信息——基本上都是筆在紙上的移動(dòng)——都將以數(shù)字形式存儲(chǔ)于筆中。你可在筆的存儲(chǔ)器中存儲(chǔ)多達(dá)40頁(yè)的資料。而對(duì)你來(lái)說(shuō)，你只不過(guò)是在使用一支普通的筆而已。

只有當(dāng)你將筆插入與PC機(jī)連接的筆座中時(shí)，有趣的事才真正開(kāi)始。你的PC機(jī)的專用軟件會(huì)估算出你所做之事，并下載你最新寫下的所有文件。根據(jù)你是否在專用記事本的一些特定框里打?qū)μ?hào)，這種筆還可以辨別出文檔是電子郵件、“待執(zhí)行”人物還是要插入文字處理文檔的圖表。文檔下載后，你就可以查看、打印或?qū)⑵滢D(zhuǎn)換為其他形式。

io私人數(shù)字筆可妥善又簡(jiǎn)單地解決手寫筆記的存儲(chǔ)、共享和檢索問(wèn)題，也可處理圖表、圖片以及其他非文本資料。你不必?cái)y帶電腦，你只需要拿出筆和專門用紙就能開(kāi)始工作了。

這是一種很了不起的產(chǎn)品，因?yàn)槟愕墓ぷ鞑粫?huì)因之產(chǎn)生任何麻煩——你不必?cái)y帶顯示屏，也不必?cái)y帶任何附件。它非常輕便，如果你需要的話，也可以當(dāng)普通筆來(lái)用，而這種專用記事本看起來(lái)摸起來(lái)都很像普通記事本。有些人會(huì)很好奇，不明白為什么你在用雪茄寫字，這是唯一看起來(lái)令人費(fèi)解的地方。

io私人數(shù)字筆在其他方面也很有潛力。例如，聯(lián)邦快遞公司正引進(jìn)一種數(shù)字筆，從而用戶可用手填寫表格，而無(wú)需再費(fèi)力勞神地打進(jìn)機(jī)器中。如果數(shù)字為數(shù)字型，幾乎所有事情都可由這種筆來(lái)完成——例如將數(shù)據(jù)通過(guò)無(wú)線方式或手機(jī)傳輸?shù)街行挠?jì)算機(jī)上。醫(yī)生可將處方直接轉(zhuǎn)到藥房，減少了欺詐行為的發(fā)生。警察可將報(bào)告發(fā)回警察局，減少了文書(shū)工作。