科學(xué)60秒:這是衣服 還是智能機器人?
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2011-05-03 00:02
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____1____. I mean, really, what can it do? It can't pick up sound, or ____2____ us if something's wrong. Or can it? M.I.T. researchers say they've developed a fiber that would allow clothing to eventually do those things. Their study is in the journal Nature Materials.
A big key to the fiber is a plastic commonly used in microphones. Its particular molecular structure involves a lopsided arrangement of fluorine atoms on one side and hydrogen atoms on the other. That asymmetry makes the plastic piezoelectric: it changes shape when it ____3____ an electric field.
So any electric current will then cause the fibers to ____4____. The fibers could act as a microphone or a speaker, depending on whether the vibrations were being recorded or amplified.
The clothing mic could capture speech, sure. But it could also monitor health by detecting almost ____5____ sounds from the body. Sounds like blood flow, which could make a shirt a 24-hour blood-pressure monitor. So maybe someday, your clothes will say: “I detect a rise in blood pressure. Please sit down.”
____1____. I mean, really, what can it do? It can't pick up sound, or ____2____ us if something's wrong. Or can it? M.I.T. researchers say they've developed a fiber that would allow clothing to eventually do those things. Their study is in the journal Nature Materials.
A big key to the fiber is a plastic commonly used in microphones. Its particular molecular structure involves a lopsided arrangement of fluorine atoms on one side and hydrogen atoms on the other. That asymmetry makes the plastic piezoelectric: it changes shape when it ____3____ an electric field.
So any electric current will then cause the fibers to ____4____. The fibers could act as a microphone or a speaker, depending on whether the vibrations were being recorded or amplified.
The clothing mic could capture speech, sure. But it could also monitor health by detecting almost ____5____ sounds from the body. Sounds like blood flow, which could make a shirt a 24-hour blood-pressure monitor. So maybe someday, your clothes will say: “I detect a rise in blood pressure. Please sit down.”
Clothing is so yesterday
beep at
encounters
vibrate
imperceptible
穿衣打扮早已成為明日黃花。我是說,衣服嘛,還能變出什么花樣來?它又不能接收聲音,又不能在事情不對勁兒的時候發(fā)出警報?!??什么?它可以?。 槭±砉W(xué)院的研究人員稱他們已經(jīng)開發(fā)出一種纖維,用這種纖維制成的衣服就可實現(xiàn)上述功能。他們的研究成果發(fā)表在《自然材料》上。
制造這種纖維的關(guān)鍵技術(shù)是采用了一種常用于麥克風(fēng)的塑料。其特殊的分子結(jié)構(gòu)在于一側(cè)是氟原子而另一側(cè)是氫原子的不平衡排列。這種不對稱使得塑料產(chǎn)生壓電:當它遇到電場時,形狀會發(fā)生改變。
因此,任何電流都會導(dǎo)致纖維顫動。而顫動的纖維就可作為麥克風(fēng)或揚聲器,這取決于纖維震動是被錄下來還是放大了。
這種“服裝麥克風(fēng)”當然可以錄下講話,也可通過偵測人體發(fā)出的幾乎難以察覺的聲音來監(jiān)測穿著者的健康狀況。比如血液流動的聲音就能讓這種衣服24小時監(jiān)測血壓變化?;蛟S有一天,你的衣服會對你說:“我發(fā)現(xiàn)您的血壓升高,請稍坐片刻?!?/div>
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