万花筒 2008-10-15&10-16 太阳能夹克

It looks like a regular jacket, but this one has serious voltage--a solar panel on the back charges iPods, phones, X-boxes and laptops, all on the go.

 

Designed for mobile-types who don't wanna waste time searching for an outlet¹, a cable inside the jacket runs from the panel to a battery inside the pocket, there 8 different plug-ins accommodate electronic devices that can be charged up wherever there is sunshine.

 

Designer Julieta Gayoso-- "The idea is precisely² that today technology is more and more mobile. It has the freedom of wireless³ connection. But when batteries run out, you have to plug into the grid⁴. So this is a way to have mobile energy, and of course it's clean."

 

Gayoso’s Indarra clothing line based in Argentina includes pants and jackets with built-in controls to skip songs or pump up the volume. Wirelessly⁵ connecting with an iPod at the bottom of a backpack. Clothes that do double duty, keeping you warm and listening to that favorite song. Well, at least as long as it doesn't rain.

 

Katharine Jackson, Reuters.
 

1 outlet   

n.出口/路；销路；批发商店；通风口；发泄

参考例句：

• The outlet of a water pipe was blocked.水管的出水口堵住了。
• Running is a good outlet for his energy.跑步是他发泄过剩精力的好方法。

2 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

3 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

4 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

5 wirelessly   

不用电线的，用无线电波传送的

参考例句：

• I heard it on the wireless. 我是从无线电收音机里听到的。
• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio. 收音机里有许多无线电线路。