英语四级阅读理解的精炼50篇046: 神奇的电子服装 (含答案)_大学英语阅读

英语四级阅读理解的精炼50篇046: 神奇的电子服装 (含答案)

　　46. Electronics And Fashion

　　As you probably know, clothing has been around since the time of Adam and Eve and it s become a lot more sophisticated than those early fig leaf designs1 . On the other hand, electronics have been with us for only a few hundred years beginning with Franklin running around with his portable lightning rod2 . With gadgets more popular than ever these days, the combination of clothing and electronics was inevitable.

　　First let me mention a line of jackets launched in the fall of 2000 by Royal Philips Electronics and Levi Strauss Co3. Philips original press release4 called it merging fashion and technology in the creation of work wear for the digital age . I love that kind of talk.

　　Each design is said to contain a simple body area network using wires integrated into the body design. What it really does is allow you to use a Philips Xenium GSM mobile phone5 and MP3 player in a jacket all controlled by a unified remote .

　　A company named VivoMetrics6 has designed a different type of electronic garment. It s called LifeShirt, and it s an ambulatory monitoring system stuffed into a flexible, washable T-shirt.

　　VivoMetrics has built a system that allows doctors to monitor more than 40 physiological signs over extended periods of time while patients are away from a doctor s office or hospital. One of the early target markers is people who suffer from sleep apnea7 .