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Task 4. Before reading the text discuss the following questions.
1). Do you have a mobile phone? How long have you had it?
2). What do you use it for? How often do you use it?
3). Is it an important part of everyday life in your country?
Task 5 . Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
1. stagnate v(stagnated)
2. ubiquitous
adj.(ubiquity)
3. taciturn adj.
4. dexterity n
5. blur v(blurring)
a) to become or make smth become difficult to
distinguish clearly
b) skill in using your hands or your mind
c) seeming to be everywhere or in several places at
the same time
d) tending not to say very much, in a way that seems
unfriendly
e) to stop developing or making process
Text 4
Exercise 1. Make nouns from the following verbs according to the model and
translate them:
a) Model: to work - a work[er]
To research, hold, view, develop, improve, use, design, control, convert, emit.
b) Model: to reflect – a reflect[or]
To generate, calculate, compress, project, integrate, visit, demonstrate.
Much More than a Contact Lens
Part 1
Super contact lenses which display background information onto your real
world view seem like a gadget taken from the latest Spielberg movie. Thanks to a
recently developed technique, this scenario may soon be real.
A contact lens with integrated circuitry. A researcher of the University of
Washington holds a contact lens which embeds LEDs and other electrical
components and which is manufactured using their newly developed self-assembly
technique.
Imagine you are visiting a small town for the first time. Suddenly, you bump
into a monument and wonder what it is. Faster than the blink of an eye, the special
contact lenses that you are wearing display the name of the monument with a short
description directly retrieved from the web. Science fiction? Not for much longer.
Contact lenses which look exactly like ordinary contact lenses, but with a LED
display embedded, have been developed by researchers at the University of
Washington (Seattle, USA) led by Babak Parviz.These super contact lenses could
offer the perfect platform for Augmented Reality: an important branch of computer
science where computer generated images are super-imposed onto the real world; a
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