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BBC新闻重点讲解:第三代太空背心
GARETH MITCHELL: I'm Gareth Mitchell and still to come the radio amateur gauging how Hi-Fi the Wi-Fi is on the "One Laptop Per Child". Now then,"Doctor, doctor help, my games consult might have vibrating control, it is amazing graphics but the experience still isn't quite realistic enough."Hmm, I'm doing my doctor's voice now by the way."Hmm, yes many patients report these symptoms. I therefore prescribe a special vest that uses miniature pneumatic rams to simulate bullet hits, shrapnel and explosions."Oh yes wouldn't it be great if doctors really were that cool. Well luckily Doctor Mark Ombrellaro, an American vascular surgeon really is that cool because he's developed what he calls The 3rd Space Vest and he set up a company called TN Games to market it. And what it does is it brings haptics in gaming, in other words the sense of touch to the body as well as just to the hands and Mark's also developed a helmet that even expands that"being shot experience"to the head. Well earlier Mark popped in to give me a demo on a title called"Incursion".
I should describe what I'm wearing, which is a helmet and a vest and it looks a bit like one of those Kevlar bullet proof vests that you see war correspondents and troops wearing which is appropriate for the game that I'm playing at the moment. Because it's the first person superman game and not a lot is happening by describing that but suddenly all these opponents have found that I'm here, all these characters in the game. So yes I'm wearing the vest, I'm wearing the hat and within the hat and the vest is all kind of actuators that can simulate the feeling of gunshots, of shrapnel. And so as you, this is me, firing my gun here, at the moment not a lot is happening as far as far as the haptics, the sense of touch is concerned but now I start kicking off. Oh my goodness, somebody is shooting me from behind and I can simultaneously feel four bullets going into me from behind. It's the weirdest feeling, not amazingly pleasant but then this was never meant to be a pleasant experience but its just adding a whole extra level to the game play. I'm taking shots in the head, shots behind me and there's just been a massive explosion and I simultaneously felt what I think must be shrapnel going into my chest and going all the way up my back as well. I need a rest, right, so we're going to put the game on pause for a minute. Let's speak to Mark Ombrellaro who is the brains behind this torture.
We turned the sound down on the game but Mark amazingly the haptics is still carrying on. As I'm speaking to you I'm still feeling shocks and the shrapnel in my chest, so tell me a bit more about this vest.
MARK OMBRELLARO: You bet. So the vest was originally designed from medical application. If you will, for a telehealth, the ability to do a remote physical exam from a doctor in a remote location and what we ended up doing is taking that same technology and bringing that to a consumer application, namely the videogame environment. So what's happening, we use a pneumatic base system, so there are little air cells and as a surgeon I got them designed over key anatomic points like if you're really getting shot what would be critical points of interest. There are eight impact points if you will; four in the front and four in the back is how we have the vest designed. But with the software that's put into the game, you're not just limited to the actual impact of the bullet, we can do ground effect so like if your character jumps off a platform and lands you get that jolt to the back as you land and feel that effect. We can also do things like G force effects, if you're in a vehicle driving through a videogame environment so its more than just the impact of the shots if you will.
GARETH MITCHELL: And as well as doing the chest and the back, you're doing the head as well and you've made me wear this helmet that looks like a kind of high tech military helmet and you've got all of these hydraulics in here too then?
MARK OMBRELLARO: Correct. We have actually six additional impact zones if you will; front, back, side, side plus we have two little goodies, one over each ear and near misses, which you can hear the bullets and feel them fly by.
GARETH MITCHELL: You get the whole "rookie shay" effect?
MARK OMBRELLARO: Exactly.
GARETH MITCHELL: And I've, I've been shot in the head several times, mainly down to my very lame game play, it has to be said, and my goodness you certainly feel it. When you get shot in the forehead you know you're in trouble.
MARK OMBRELLARO: Yep. Well there's supposed to be a consequence to it so. You know one thing that's very interesting is that people are concerned about videogames and playing the shooter games and the violence associated with that, and how people get disassociated when they just live in a video environment alone. And one of the interesting things, as you've experienced is that as you play the game you're actually understanding the consequence to those actions and you are physically responding as you're playing the game. From a physician's perspective, it's quite interesting because it's actually putting a lot of the consequence back into the video game that nobody has that understanding about anymore, they're a little dissociated from it.
GARETH MITCHELL: So the principle here is pneumatic, that must mean there's a time lag and that's critical in many kinds of gaming isn't it? Can that potentially spoil the gaming experience?
MARK OMBRELLARO: There's actually no time lag. With the code embedded into the game, it's instantaneous in fact as your character is taking damage in the code, at the code level it's already triggering the jacket so in some cases you may notice it by feeling it faster than you will by the visual cues on the screen.
GARETH MITCHELL: So this is faster than the graphics card?
MARK OMBRELLARO: Sometimes yes it can be.
GARETH MITCHELL: OK, right, so enough chatting I think.
加雷思·米切尔：我是加雷思·米切尔，接下来是业余无线电爱好者评价关于具有高保真度的无线保真技术是如何应用于"每个孩子一台笔记本电脑"计划的。
现在首先听听："医生，救命啊，我的游戏顾问要有振动控制机了，它的制图不错，但是体验仍不够逼真。"恩，顺便学一下医生的声音。"嗯，很多病人都报告了这些症状。于是我设计了一个特殊的背心，它使用填充的微型气缸来模仿子弹，弹片和爆炸。"如果医生能够真的这样做就太酷了。幸运的是我们有动脉血管外科医生马克·奥伯尔博士，他真的很酷，因为他开发了"第三代太空背心"，并成立了"TN游戏"公司出售它。他在游戏中引入了虚拟触觉技术，也就是身体能够感受到如手般的触摸，马克还开发了一个头盔，使头部也能够体验到被击中的感觉。不久前，马克突然给我了一个名为"入侵"的游戏样本。
我要描述一下我的穿着，一个头盔和一个背心，就像你常见的战地记者和军队穿着的那些凯芙拉防弹背心，对我正在玩的这个游戏正合适。因为这是第一人称超人游戏，目前风平浪静，但仅仅一瞬之间，游戏中所有敌人角色已经发现了我。没错，我穿着防弹衣，藏在帽子里面，防弹衣可以模拟被枪击，被弹片击中的感觉。现在，你在那儿，我在这儿，朝你开枪，现在我什么都没有感觉到，直到有了虚拟触觉技术，我开始有了被击中的感觉。噢，天啊，有人在我背后射了一枪。同时我可以感到背后中了四枪。这种感觉真是太诡异了，很不舒服，中枪当然不会是一件好事，但它使我升了一级。我头部中了一枪，背后中了好几枪，遇到了一场大规模爆炸，同时我还感觉到弹片穿透了我的胸部。我需要休息，没错，我们要暂停一会儿。让我来访问下使我备受折磨的始作俑者马克·奥伯尔博士。
我们把游戏的声音调小，但是马克，令人吃惊的是，虚拟触觉还在延续。当我跟你讲话的时候我还能感觉各式各样的冲击，弹片仿佛还在我胸中，来为我们介绍下这个防弹背心吧。
马克·奥伯尔：你说的没错，这个背心最初是用于医疗上的。如果你愿意，可是使用它做远程医疗，使用它，医生可以为你做一个远距离体检，最后我们将同样的技术用于电子游戏环境中。看会出现什么结果，我们使用一个以气动为基础的系统，因此几乎没有气囊，作为一个外科医生，我清楚解剖的关键点并将他们用于这项设计中，比如，如果你真的被击中，哪些地方是利害相关的。有8个关键部位受影响，四个在前，四个在后，这是我们设计这个背心的基础，但是你在使用这个软件时，你不仅受到来自子弹的真实冲击，还可以感受到地面效应，比如你扮演的角色从一个平台跳下来，落地的时候如果没有站稳，你会感到背会摇晃。还有重力的感觉，如果你在电子游戏中开车，所以你能感觉到的远远不止中弹。
加雷思·米切尔：除了胸部和背部，你在头部上也引入了虚拟触觉技术，你给我戴的头盔类似一种高科技的军事头盔，你在这里也用了水力学的技术吗？
马克·奥伯尔：没错。我们有6个附加的效果区域，前边，后边，左右，左右附近，我们还在两耳旁边设计了两个小区域，你可以听到子弹在耳边飞过的声音。
加雷思·米切尔：你们有整套的"新手"体验？
马克·奥伯尔：完全正确。
加雷思·米切尔：我的头部被打中了几次，主要是因为我对游戏很不熟悉，天啊，你肯定感觉到了。当你前额中弹了，你就知道你有麻烦了。
马克·奥伯尔：是。理论上是这样。你知道人们关注电子游戏，杀人游戏以及其中的暴力，有趣的是，当他们独身在一个电子环境中时，他们是如何脱离那些暴力的。当你经历过游戏后，你玩的时候就会提前知道这些动作会带来什么后果，你也会知道如何应对。从一个医师的角度来看，非常有趣，因为它把各种结果都设计到了电子游戏中，没有人会完全知道有什么后果，他们稍微与之分离。
加雷思·米切尔：这样看来，原理上是气动的，也就意味着有一个时间间隔，这在很多游戏中都非常关键，不是吗？它有可能会破坏玩家在游戏中的体验吗？
马克·奥伯尔：实际上并没有时间间隔。在代码植入游戏的同时，实际上是瞬间的，你的角色就会接收到破坏的信息，在编码水平上，它已经启动了保护套，你甚至在屏幕上看到它之前就能感觉到它。
加雷思·米切尔：所以这比图片卡要快？
马克·奥伯尔：有时候是的。
加雷思·米切尔：好的，我想我们有了足够的了解了。
1. consult v.商讨,商量,协商,会诊
例句：You should consult a veteran doctor about your illness.
你应该找一位资深的医生给你看病。
2. vibrate v.振动
例句：Their hearts vibrated to the speaker's stirring appeal.
他们听了演讲人激动人心的呼吁心潮起伏。
3. simulate vt.模拟,假装,模仿
例句：These insects can simulate dead leaves.
这些昆虫可以伪装成枯叶。
4. simultaneously adv.同时地
例句：We struck at several of his units simultaneously.
我们同时打击了他的几个部队。
5. consequence n.结果,后果;推理,推断;重要性
例句：Such a decision may be attended with serious consequences.
如此决定会有严重的后果。
6. perspective n.远景,看法,透视
例句：We must look at the problem in the right perspective.
我们必须以正确的眼光看待这个问题。
7. spoil v.损坏,破坏,溺爱
例句：What he's done is spoil the whole thing.
他所干的事就是把整个事情弄糟了。
8. embed v.嵌入
例句：These facts lie embedded in his mind.
这些事实牢牢铭记在他的心中。
The arrow embedded itself deeply in the door.
这支箭深深地嵌在了门上。
1. Well luckily Doctor Mark Ombrellaro, an American vascular surgeon really is that cool because he's developed what he calls The 3rd Space Vest and he set up a company called TN Games to market it. set up设立,竖立,架起,升起,装配,创(纪录),提出,开业
例句：The farmers set up a farm implement repair shop.
农民们创办了一个农具修理厂。
2. Well earlier Mark popped in to give me a demo on a title called "Incursion".
pop in顺便经过,顺道走访
例句：I'll pop the books in on my way home.
我要在回家时顺路把这些书送到。
3. You bet. So the vest was originally designed from medical application.
You bet.当然,肯定,无疑
4. We can also do things like G force effects, if you're in a vehicle driving through a videogame environment so its more than just the impact of the shots if you will.
more than不仅仅
例句：She wishes to be treated as nothing more than a common girl.
她希望被对待得只不过像一般的女孩子。
5. at the code level it's already triggering the jacket so in some cases you may notice it by feeling it faster than you will by the visual cues on the screen.
in some cases在某些情况下
例句：In some cases output has increased more than fourfold.
在有些情况下，产量增加了3倍多。
CNN新闻重点讲解:向布什扔鞋记者被释放
Hi there, thanks for checking this out, I'm Virginia Cha, at the CNN center in Atlanta, with a look at what's happening now in the news.
Friends and fans are remembering actor Patrick Swayze today. He died yesterday after nearly a 2-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Swayze was 57, publicly best known for his starring roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost.
Vice president Biden is in Baghdad today to meet with the country's leaders and visit US troops. His surprise visit comes as US is now one year away from its goal of pulling all combat troops from Iraq. The White House says president Obama asked the vice president to provide sustained high level focus from the White House on Iraq.
Public support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped to an all time low. The CNN opinion research poll just out today shows 39% of Americans support the war, 58% oppose it. The poll's release comes after the two deadly in this month for US troops in Afghanistan.
The daring US special forces raided in Somalia may have killed a wanted Al-Qaeda terrorist, that's according to Somali government sources. The helicounter attack occurred in a small town, south of the Somali capital. Two people were killed, two others wounded and captured.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at president George W. Bush was released from prison this morning. Mumtaz Zaidi stunning act of protest last December made him a hero in much of the Arab world. He served nine months of a one-year sentence for assulting a foreign head of state.
And those are your headlines this hour, stay with CNN for more on those stories and all your other news of the day.
大家好，欢迎锁定我们的频道，这里是亚特兰大CNN新闻中心，我是Virginia Cha,现在我们来看一下now in the news的新闻。
今天，朋友和粉丝一起缅怀演员帕特里克·斯威兹。在与胰脏癌抗争接近两年之后，他于昨天去世享年57岁。斯威兹因在《热舞十七》和《人鬼情未了》中扮演的角色而广为人知。
副总统拜登今天抵达巴格达，与伊拉克领导人进行会晤，并慰问美国军队。拜登的突然造访距离美军作战部队从伊拉克完全撤军的目标还有一年的时间。白宫称，奥巴马总统委托副总统转达白宫对伊拉克持续的高度关注。
对阿富汗战争的公众支持降低到前所未有的水平。今天出炉的CNN民意调查现实，39%的美国人支持阿富汗战争，58%的人反对。该调查在本月两名美军士兵在阿富汗遇难之后。
根据索马里政府的消息来源，美国特种部队对索马里的猛烈袭击可能将一名基地组织恐怖分子通缉犯击毙。袭击发生在索马里首都南部的一个小镇。袭击造成两人死亡，另外两人受伤被俘。
今天早上，向布什总统扔鞋的伊拉克记者被从监狱释放。去年12月，Mumtaz Zaidi出奇的抗议举动使他在大部分阿拉伯世界成为英雄。因袭击外国首脑，他被判处一年监禁，服刑9个月。
以上就是本小时的头条新闻，欢迎继续收听CNN的其他节目。
1. sustained vt.承受,支持,支撑,供养,继续,忍受,蒙受,证实,准许
例句：The judge has sustained the prosecutor's oBjection.
法官确认原告反对为有效。
2. daring adj.勇敢的,无畏的
例句：The heroine was famous for the courage and daring action.
女英雄因勇气与无畏的行为而出了名。
3. stunning a.足以使人晕倒的,极好的
例句：The man felt a stunning blow upon the back of his neck.
那人感到后颈部受到令人晕眩的猛击。
4. assult v.攻击，袭击
5. wanted adj.被通缉的
例句：a wanted criminal
被通缉的罪犯
1. Public support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped to an all time low.
all time空前的
例句：A friend is a loving companion at all times.
朋友是永久的知心伴侣。
2. The daring US special forces raided in Somalia may have killed a wanted Al-Qaeda terrorist, that's according to Somali government sources.
according to根据,按照,随…而定
例句：They must cut their coats according to their cloth.
他们必须量体裁衣。
VOA常速讲解:报告称象牙海岸死亡事件与有毒废物有关
Report Links Toxic Waste to Deaths in Ivory Coast
A report submitted to the U. N. Human Rights Council links the toxic waste dumped by a Dutch-owned vessel in the Ivory Coast three years ago to deaths and illnesses. On August 19, 2006, the Probo Koala, a ship owned by the Dutch oil trading company Trafigura and flying the Panamanian flag docked in the capital Abidjan and discharged its tanks containing the waste.

A man points to an open drain where toxic waste was dumped, in an industrial zone of Abidjan
The waste was dumped in 17 or 18 sites around Abidjan. According to official government estimates, 15 people died and more than 100,000 were hospitalized from the affects of the waste. Civil society organizations claim the number of dead and sick is much higher.
Civil and criminal proceedings related to this incident are ongoing in both Britain and the Netherlands. For that reason, Special U. N. Investigator on the adverse affects of toxic waste, Okechukwu Ibeanu, says the verdict is still out on whether the wastes caused the deaths and illnesses.
"There is still some contention among scientists as to the actual causality,"he said."That, I realize. But there is a prima facie evidence to believe that there is a connection. There could not have been a coincidence that hundreds of thousands of people would become sick in the immediate aftermath of the dumping around Abidjan."
The report submitted to the U. N. Human Rights Council says the long-term human health and environmental consequences of the incident have not yet been fully determined.
It notes the impact of excessive exposure to each chemical component of the waste is likely to be known, but the consequences of the cocktail of these chemicals on humans is still unknown.
During his mission to Abidjan, Investigator Ibeanua says he and his team visited some of the waste sites. He says Ivorian officials corroborated the mission's findings that the cleanup of the sites were