2007年10月12日 星期五

Is that your phone or your imagination?

website
http://www.wretch.cc/video/eca4353&func=single&vid=3366231&o=self_a&p=0&cid=47069
vocabulary
1.Vibration:shaking
2.Junky:heroin addict (slang)
3.Phantom:imaginary
4.Amputated:cut off a limb
5.Accommodate:adapt oneself
6.Consultant:advisor
7.Scant:barely,few
8.Responsiveness:state of being responsive
9.Attuned:adjust
10.Irritation:annoyance
question
Q1.How does Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary defines "a phantom limb"?
A:An often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated.
Q2.Is the vibration of cell phones always the real vibration?
A:Not exactly. Sometimes it is people's anticipatory vibration.
Q3.Why cell phones are necessary to people?
A:Because cell phones help people to connect to the world.
Q4.Are there many researches about this phenomenon?
A:No, there aren't. There are few, but there are many theories about this.
Q5.Why BlackBerry has created a new annoyance?
A: Because phone dials automatically, and it always calls the same person, he said.
summary
Some people cannot live without cell phones and they can feel the vibration even cell phones do not in their pockets. There are few researches but lots of theories about this phenomenon. First, cell phones become parts of some users’ limb, so once cell phones are away from them they feel strange. Second, cell phones help people to connect to the society, once they are away from cell phones they feel that they are isolated or rejected and then become anxious. Because of these two basic reasons, people have this new tech irritation which is phantom vibration.

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