'We are constantly seeking the magic balance,' says the Wellesley math major. 'Sometimes what is good for the individual person isn't good for the rest.'
克里斯蒂毕业于美国韦尔斯利威尔斯利学院(Wellesley College)数学专业。她说,我们在不断寻找最佳平衡点。有时,对一个人有利的事未必对其他人有利。
A named inventor on 14 patents, Ms. Christy has a few more pending. She refers to the latest of them as the 'surfboard feature.' The idea came from a joke with colleagues when they were leaving one night after a dinner out. They sheepishly worried whether someday elevators might display a rider's weight. (Elevators already calculate the total weight in the car.)
克里斯蒂有14项以其名字命名的专利,目前还有几项专利正在申请。她提到其中最新一项是“冲浪板功能。其灵感来自与同事开的玩笑。一天晚上他们大吃一顿后正准备离开时,傻乎乎地担心会不会有一天电梯会显示乘客的体重。(现在的电梯已能计算轿厢内的总重量。)
The joke got Ms. Christy thinking of a feature that would allow people with a bulky or heavy item to have a car to themselves. So she and her colleagues created a system that can be programmed to allocate an empty car to a user. The feature would give users like hotel bellhops a numeric code that is punched in before entering the elevator. (A hotel in Hawaii considered using it to prevent surfers from disturbing other guests with their surfboards─hence its name.) The feature is generally used now by staff in hotels and office buildings.
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