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在科技日新月异的今天，你会发现有时那些新奇有趣的创意也会给你带来“审美疲劳”，比如如今满天飞的触屏，是不是已经让你有些厌倦了呢？也许是时候，来个新点子了。
Hostess: Computer chips and technology are invading all sorts of previously “dumb” devices. Phones are now smart. Cars are becoming connected computers on wheels. Call it the 1)computerization of everything.
Reporter: At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, touch pads are everywhere—in phones, in tablets, laptop screens. And Brad Feld has had enough.
主持人：电脑芯片和计算机科技正全面入侵以往的“傻瓜”设备。现在手机都成了智能手机，汽车都渐渐变成一台台带轮子的互联电脑，可谓万物皆“计算机化”。记者：在今年的消费电子产品展上，大小触屏随处可见——手机、平板电脑、手提电脑的屏幕。布拉德·菲尔德对此心生厌倦。
Brad Feld: The whole idea that it’s socially acceptable or 2)functionally acceptable to have a whole mass of 3)humanity that’s 4)staring down at a tiny piece of glass and 5)pounding on it with their thumbs is kind of 6)absurd. Reporter: Feld’s a venture capitalist at the Foundry Group. His firm is investing 7)aggressively in startups that are creating new ways for humans and computers to interact.
Brad: Twenty years from
now the way we interact
with 8)computing will be
unrecognizable to us
today.
Reporter: But judging
from the displays at 9)CES,
the touch pad 10)craze
hasn’t 11)crested—yet.
Just inside Microsoft’s
enormous 12)booth here,
there’s a giant touch pad
the size of a tabletop. It
looks like the love child of
an iPad and a flat-screen TV. “But it’s a bit different to that”, Steve Clayton’s from Microsoft. Clayton says this table doesn’t just respond to touch; it’s actually watching us, paying attention to where we are—where we’re standing.
Steve Clayton: If I click on one of these images or I tap on one, the image 13)rotates to me, and that’s because this surface, this device, can see. It can see the orientation of my finger and it can present the image towards me.
Reporter: More and more computers are doing just that—paying attention, watching and listening to us. Microsoft’s Kinect responds to gestures. Apple’s Siri listens to our voices. And observant little machines are popping up in places you might not expect. Matt Rodgers is a founder at Nest. His little 14)thermostat observes patterns in your house, then programs itself.
Matt Rodgers: So use it as you should, like, use a normal, you know, non-programmable thermostat—turn it up and turn it down to make yourself comfortable—and Nest will learn from your patterns.
布拉德·菲尔德：好好一个人就知道盯着一小块玻璃屏幕，用拇指左敲右戳的，这样的做法从社交层面乃至功能操作上来说大家竟然都觉得是合宜的，真是匪夷所思。
记者：菲尔德是美国Foundry集团旗下一名风险投资商，他的公司大力投资于研发人机互动新方式的新兴公司。
布拉德：二十年后我们跟电脑的互动方式在今天的我们看来会是那么的新奇莫辨。
记者：但从消费电子产品展上展示的新品来看，触屏热仍未退却。在这边，微软庞大的展位里面就有一部台面那么大的巨型触屏，看上
去很像iPad和平板电视的结晶合体。“但跟那个又有点不一样”，微软的斯蒂夫·克雷顿如是说。他透露，这款触屏桌面不单只对指触命令能作出反应，实际上它还在观察我们，留意着我们在哪里，如我们站立的方位。
斯蒂夫·克雷顿：只要我点击或者按着其中一幅图片，那图片就会转向面对我打开，那是因为这平面、这种装置本身看得见周遭的一切。它可以辨认我手指的方向，从而能为我正向展示图片。
记者：越来越多的电脑正是往这方向走——关注、观察、倾听我们。微软的体感游戏设备Kinect能应玩家的动作姿势而运行。苹果的Siri能识别我们的语音指令。而这类眼观六路耳听八方的小仪器正陆续现身在很多你预料之外的地方。麦特·罗杰斯是Nest的创始人之一。其公司出品的小型温控器能观察你家里的调温模式，然后自我编程、自动调温。
麦特·罗杰斯：就像你用平常那些非编程的温控器一样——按自己的舒适度要求调高调低的，然后Nest就会从中了解到你的模式。
Reporter: If you turn up the heat and then leave the house, Nest has sensors that will notice you are out and turn the heat down. You end up programming the computer inside this thermostat without even realizing you’ve done it. And John Underkoffler envisions a day where machines all around us respond to how we move and what we want. Underkoffler’s best known as the brains behind the futuristic computers in Steven Spielberg’s film Minority Report. Spielberg didn’t want Tom Cruise to mess around with keyboards or touch screens in a film set in the future.
J o h n U n d e r k o f f l e r : W h e n I proposed to Steven that it could be a gestural interface that it would be body-centered—human-centered—and that you could literally point at the screens and command the pixels and sift data using your hands at a distance, I think Steven loved that idea.
Reporter: So Cruise stands in front of a screen and conducts his computer like Mickey Mouse in Fantasia.
Underkoffler built a working model at MIT. After the movie, he refined it and started a company called Oblong. For now, the full Oblong system can cost up to half a million dollars, but eventually he hopes it will control all sorts of common machines.
John: Obvious computers like laptops and desktops, but also computers that you don’t think about—the front of your microwave oven, the dashboard of your car, the TV set in your living room.
Reporter: And Oblong executives at CES say they see more and more signs this transformation is on the way.
记者：如果你把室温调高了，然后离开房子，Nest温控器的感应装置会注意到你已经外出，继而将温度调低。就是这样，在不知不觉之间，你已经完成对温控器内置电脑的编程工作了。约翰·恩德柯福乐更预言，将来我们周围的机器全部可以按我们的一举一动及所需所想而反应。他曾是大导演斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格的电影《少数派报告》幕后设计片中那些未来科幻电脑的智囊团成员之一，因此为人所熟知。斯皮尔伯格当时不想片中的汤姆·克鲁斯在未来时空的电影场面还要敲键盘或者按触屏什么的。约翰·恩德柯福乐：我当时就跟斯蒂芬提议说，可以设计一个手势操作界面，更以肢体动作为导向，更以人为本的一套操作模式，基本上，你可以远距离对着屏幕用手指指点点就能操控像素选择数据了。我想当时斯蒂芬就爱上了这个主意。
记者：于是大家就看到了汤姆·克鲁斯像《幻想曲》里的米老鼠那样站在屏幕前指挥自己电脑的一幕。
恩德柯福乐按自己的设想在麻省理工大学为电影做出了一台可操作的模型。影片拍摄过后，他把这台电脑进一步调试完善，并成立了一家名为Oblong的公司。目前，完整的一套Oblong系统叫价达五十万美元，但他希望此系统最终能统帅所有普通机器设备。
约翰：手提电脑、桌面电脑这些不用说了，连一些你想不到的电脑也是我们的目标——微波炉的控制面板、座驾的仪表板、客厅电视等等装置内的微型电脑。
记者：出席消费电子产品展的Oblong公司高层表示，有越来越多的迹象表明这一大转变正悄然上演。
Hostess: Computer chips and technology are invading all sorts of previously “dumb” devices. Phones are now smart. Cars are becoming connected computers on wheels. Call it the 1)computerization of everything.
Reporter: At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, touch pads are everywhere—in phones, in tablets, laptop screens. And Brad Feld has had enough.
主持人：电脑芯片和计算机科技正全面入侵以往的“傻瓜”设备。现在手机都成了智能手机，汽车都渐渐变成一台台带轮子的互联电脑，可谓万物皆“计算机化”。记者：在今年的消费电子产品展上，大小触屏随处可见——手机、平板电脑、手提电脑的屏幕。布拉德·菲尔德对此心生厌倦。
Brad Feld: The whole idea that it’s socially acceptable or 2)functionally acceptable to have a whole mass of 3)humanity that’s 4)staring down at a tiny piece of glass and 5)pounding on it with their thumbs is kind of 6)absurd. Reporter: Feld’s a venture capitalist at the Foundry Group. His firm is investing 7)aggressively in startups that are creating new ways for humans and computers to interact.
Brad: Twenty years from
now the way we interact
with 8)computing will be
unrecognizable to us
today.
Reporter: But judging
from the displays at 9)CES,
the touch pad 10)craze
hasn’t 11)crested—yet.
Just inside Microsoft’s
enormous 12)booth here,
there’s a giant touch pad
the size of a tabletop. It
looks like the love child of
an iPad and a flat-screen TV. “But it’s a bit different to that”, Steve Clayton’s from Microsoft. Clayton says this table doesn’t just respond to touch; it’s actually watching us, paying attention to where we are—where we’re standing.
Steve Clayton: If I click on one of these images or I tap on one, the image 13)rotates to me, and that’s because this surface, this device, can see. It can see the orientation of my finger and it can present the image towards me.
Reporter: More and more computers are doing just that—paying attention, watching and listening to us. Microsoft’s Kinect responds to gestures. Apple’s Siri listens to our voices. And observant little machines are popping up in places you might not expect. Matt Rodgers is a founder at Nest. His little 14)thermostat observes patterns in your house, then programs itself.
Matt Rodgers: So use it as you should, like, use a normal, you know, non-programmable thermostat—turn it up and turn it down to make yourself comfortable—and Nest will learn from your patterns.
布拉德·菲尔德：好好一个人就知道盯着一小块玻璃屏幕，用拇指左敲右戳的，这样的做法从社交层面乃至功能操作上来说大家竟然都觉得是合宜的，真是匪夷所思。
记者：菲尔德是美国Foundry集团旗下一名风险投资商，他的公司大力投资于研发人机互动新方式的新兴公司。
布拉德：二十年后我们跟电脑的互动方式在今天的我们看来会是那么的新奇莫辨。
记者：但从消费电子产品展上展示的新品来看，触屏热仍未退却。在这边，微软庞大的展位里面就有一部台面那么大的巨型触屏，看上
去很像iPad和平板电视的结晶合体。“但跟那个又有点不一样”，微软的斯蒂夫·克雷顿如是说。他透露，这款触屏桌面不单只对指触命令能作出反应，实际上它还在观察我们，留意着我们在哪里，如我们站立的方位。
斯蒂夫·克雷顿：只要我点击或者按着其中一幅图片，那图片就会转向面对我打开，那是因为这平面、这种装置本身看得见周遭的一切。它可以辨认我手指的方向，从而能为我正向展示图片。
记者：越来越多的电脑正是往这方向走——关注、观察、倾听我们。微软的体感游戏设备Kinect能应玩家的动作姿势而运行。苹果的Siri能识别我们的语音指令。而这类眼观六路耳听八方的小仪器正陆续现身在很多你预料之外的地方。麦特·罗杰斯是Nest的创始人之一。其公司出品的小型温控器能观察你家里的调温模式，然后自我编程、自动调温。
麦特·罗杰斯：就像你用平常那些非编程的温控器一样——按自己的舒适度要求调高调低的，然后Nest就会从中了解到你的模式。
Reporter: If you turn up the heat and then leave the house, Nest has sensors that will notice you are out and turn the heat down. You end up programming the computer inside this thermostat without even realizing you’ve done it. And John Underkoffler envisions a day where machines all around us respond to how we move and what we want. Underkoffler’s best known as the brains behind the futuristic computers in Steven Spielberg’s film Minority Report. Spielberg didn’t want Tom Cruise to mess around with keyboards or touch screens in a film set in the future.
J o h n U n d e r k o f f l e r : W h e n I proposed to Steven that it could be a gestural interface that it would be body-centered—human-centered—and that you could literally point at the screens and command the pixels and sift data using your hands at a distance, I think Steven loved that idea.
Reporter: So Cruise stands in front of a screen and conducts his computer like Mickey Mouse in Fantasia.
Underkoffler built a working model at MIT. After the movie, he refined it and started a company called Oblong. For now, the full Oblong system can cost up to half a million dollars, but eventually he hopes it will control all sorts of common machines.
John: Obvious computers like laptops and desktops, but also computers that you don’t think about—the front of your microwave oven, the dashboard of your car, the TV set in your living room.
Reporter: And Oblong executives at CES say they see more and more signs this transformation is on the way.
记者：如果你把室温调高了，然后离开房子，Nest温控器的感应装置会注意到你已经外出，继而将温度调低。就是这样，在不知不觉之间，你已经完成对温控器内置电脑的编程工作了。约翰·恩德柯福乐更预言，将来我们周围的机器全部可以按我们的一举一动及所需所想而反应。他曾是大导演斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格的电影《少数派报告》幕后设计片中那些未来科幻电脑的智囊团成员之一，因此为人所熟知。斯皮尔伯格当时不想片中的汤姆·克鲁斯在未来时空的电影场面还要敲键盘或者按触屏什么的。约翰·恩德柯福乐：我当时就跟斯蒂芬提议说，可以设计一个手势操作界面，更以肢体动作为导向，更以人为本的一套操作模式，基本上，你可以远距离对着屏幕用手指指点点就能操控像素选择数据了。我想当时斯蒂芬就爱上了这个主意。
记者：于是大家就看到了汤姆·克鲁斯像《幻想曲》里的米老鼠那样站在屏幕前指挥自己电脑的一幕。
恩德柯福乐按自己的设想在麻省理工大学为电影做出了一台可操作的模型。影片拍摄过后，他把这台电脑进一步调试完善，并成立了一家名为Oblong的公司。目前，完整的一套Oblong系统叫价达五十万美元，但他希望此系统最终能统帅所有普通机器设备。
约翰：手提电脑、桌面电脑这些不用说了，连一些你想不到的电脑也是我们的目标——微波炉的控制面板、座驾的仪表板、客厅电视等等装置内的微型电脑。
记者：出席消费电子产品展的Oblong公司高层表示，有越来越多的迹象表明这一大转变正悄然上演。