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1. A chemical engineer named ___________ has invented a new microchip that, if put inside a ring, can give off different scents according to a _____________.

2. Rosalind kept hearing the sounds of the tiny sensor inside the band worn around her forehead — each time she ___________________, the sensor gave out a ___________.

3. We have become familiar with the range of small _______________ that come under the heading 'smart' accessories, increasingly over the ___________ years.

4. Hidden inside watches, _________________, these sensors can check for signs of stress, give ________________ and offer ________________.

5. Steven says that these ___________________ will eventually get smaller, lighter and smarter as technology ______________.

6. Steven Feiner, concerned that vanity may prevent some people from _____________________, is already working on the idea of ______________ with the same features.

7. Their aim is to make ready-to-wear _______ that both look good and give the wearer _____________.

8. This new technology has a ______________ as well as a useful __________________.

9. They could also prove useful for cooks who want to ________________ without leaving sticky _________________ all over their ________ books.

10. At the moment, Steven's invention looks more like _________________ than a pair of glasses.

EXERCISE 6

Discuss what life would be like without computers and computer technology.

Examples:

If we didn't have computers,...

· we wouldn't be able to surf the Internet.

· communication wouldn't be as easy as it is now.

EXERCISE 7

Work in pairs or groups.

1. Discuss how each of the devices mentioned in the article could improve your life. Decide which one would be your favourite.

2. Think of another 'smart' device that you would find useful. Describe what it would look like and what it would do. Then find out what other students have decided. Whose idea for a smart device seems to be the best?

EXERCISE 8

Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (x) in the space by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word in the space. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).

IS TECHNOLOGY ALWAYS BEST?

0 ..as. In my opinion, technological advances are not always as such a great
00 .. x.. advantage. It is true that new forms of communication bring benefits,

1 …… especially if you have some research even to do for a school assignment,

2 …… or if you need to get in touch them with someone urgently. I am not so

3 …… convinced, however, that they are actually have such a positive effect on

4 …….. people of my generation. Like so many the teenagers in this country, I find

5 …… that I use my mobile phone a great deal, and if I do write to someone,

6 ……. it's usually a quick e-mail. It was when my girlfriend actually took up the

7 ……. trouble to write me a long letter that I stopped to think about it what I

8 ……. was doing. She said a lot of nice things in that letter. It was written on

9 ……. classy paper and she had taken there a lot of care about her handwriting.

10 ….. Although I'm not a great romantic, I'm sure it's something I'm always

11 ….. going to treasure. But she also said a few of hard things which made me

12 …… to think. Can it be true that I'm more interested in chatting with complete

13 …… strangers online than I am in talking to her face to face? And she was

14 ….exaggerating when she said we never get rather more than five minutes alone

15 ……. together without that one of my gadgets buzzing or bleeping, wasn't she?

 

EXERCISE 9

Choosing the right word and underline the correct word from the options given in italics.

1 Nowadays, a mobile phone is an important fashion accessory/device.

2 My sister wears such strange fashions that everyone glances/stares at her when she walks down the street.

3 My uncle's flat is full of electronic gadgets/features.

4 He's an engineer and he's always coming up with crazy new accessories/inventions, like cars that sail on water.

5 When I laughed at his latest idea, he trowned/grinned in annoyance.

EXERCISE 10

Complete the phrases in italics with a word from the box.

Date e-mail end Internet market whole

1 I wanted a lap-top computer but in the____ I bought a desktop computer.

2 A new type of car goes on the________ next week.

3 Companies now do a lot of business over the______ rather than by post.

4 These days I contact all my friends by_____ because it's cheaper than the phone.

5 I think computers are a great invention on the______ but they do have some drawbacks.

6 Technology is moving very quickly; nowadays computers are out of _____ only months after you buy them.

EXERCISE 11

Read the text about the virtual reality and say whether these sentences are True (T) or False (F):

1. Virtual reality is a computer-built fantasy world.

2. Virtual reality is also called cyberspace.

3. There are no limits to virtual reality.

4. Virtual reality is created by being in a special room.

5. Virtual reality is available only on expensive computer systems.

6. Virtual reality is the leading edge of the computer technology.

7. Eyephones are the 3DFX fiber-optic glasses.

8. Eyephones are not the only virtual reality gear.

9. Virtual reality might be misused.

10. Virtual reality can return the disabled to the full-fledged life.

11. Virtual reality was designed by the military to guide robots.

12. One can not only see or hear virtual reality, but also feel and smell it.

13. Virtual reality is only a type of computer interface.

One of the most exciting new areas of computer research is virtual reality. Having been featured in TV sitcoms as well as public television documentaries, virtual reality is merely an ambitious new style of computer interface. Virtual reality creates the illusion of being in an artificial world — one created by computers.

Virtual reality visitors strap on a set of eyephones, 3-D goggles that are really individual computer screens for the eyes. Slip ping on the rest of the gear allows you not only to see and hear, but also to sense your voyage. The world of virtual reality has been called cyberspace, a computer-enhanced fantasy world in which you move around and manipulate objects to your mind's content.

When you move your head, magnetic sensors instruct the computer to refocus your eye phones to your new viewpoint. Sounds surround you, and a fiber-optic glove allows you to "manipulate" what you see. You may seek out strange new worlds, fight monsters in computer combat, or strap yourself into the seat of a Star Wars-type jet and scream through cyberspace, blasting all comers to oblivion (computer oblivion, at least). Or, with your stomach appropriately settled, you might even try out the most incredible roller coaster ride you will ever take in your life.

For the disabled, virtual reality promises a new form of freedom. Consider the wheelchair bound paraplegic child who is suddenly able to use virtual reality gear to take part in games like baseball or basketball. Research funded by the government takes a military point of view, investigating the possibility of sending robots into the real conflict while human beings don cyberspace gear to guide them from back in the lab.

Spectrum Holobyte, a computer games development company, announced its first virtual reality computer game for the home during 1991 Christmas season. Imagine yourself suddenly clutching your handheld laser pistol as a giant bird swoops right at you from the age of dinosaurs! Your laser shot goes astray, and you feel yourself suddenly lifted off the ground and carried higher and higher. That's enough - for some of us it can be virtually too real.

 

EXERCISE 12

Put the proper words from the box into sentences:

a)

eye phones, swoop, go astray, gear, to one's mind content, clutching, fiber-optic, enhance, cyberspace

 

1. Cyberspace allows everybody to change it...

2. 3-D... are really individual computer screens for the eyes.

3. Virtual reality can... possibilities of the disabled.

4.... unknown things may cause an accident.

5. The manual... box allows you to slow down without braking, while the automatic one doesn't.

6. Virtual reality is sometimes called...

7. The letters wrongly addressed...

8.... unknown things may cause an accident.

9. In one of the s the NATO has lost their most expensive fighter.

10. By the end of the 20th century metal wires had been replaced by... ones.

b)

see, be, do, have, leave, write, tell

 

1. It was more than a hundred years ago that Lewis Carroll... about Alice's trip through the looking glass.

2. Now that fiction... became a reality... or you might say, a virtual reality... because that's the name of a new computer technology that many believe will revolutionize the way we live.

3. Trainees fighting in virtual battles often cannot... a man from a machine.

4. Virtual reality lets you travel to places you have never …, do things you’ve never — without... the room.

5. Some day, you will... that virtual reality makes other forms of entertainment, such as TV and movies, obsolete.

 

EXERCISE 13

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