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Paper-thin Speakers Win Wall Street Journal Prize 超薄纸喇叭获科技创新奖

详细资料: 创建于 2010年1月11日; 最后更新于 2024年5月25日; 发布于 2012年8月02日; 作者：Mike Lee; 点击数：216

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Paper-thin Speakers Win Wall Street Journal Prize 超薄纸喇叭获科技创新奖

Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) was announced as the winner in the consumer electronics category of the Wall Street Journal’s prestigious 2009 Technology Innovation Awards at a ceremony in San Francisco. ITRI received the honor for its groundbreaking FleXpeaker, beating off competition from industry leaders such as HP and Motorola. The paper-thin, flexible loudspeaker is made from clusters of tiny bendable speakers that can be arranged to create a speaker system of nearly any size. The cutting-edge technology and ingenious design make the ITRI award-winner the slimmest, most lightweight speaker in the world. Extremely adaptable – the sheet of speakers can be cut into shapes with scissors – there is already a multitude of potential uses for the energy-efficient FleXpeaker. Though the revolutionary product has yet to make it to the market, consumers can expect to see it used in car stereos, flat-screen TVs, cell phones, and billboards in the future.

在旧金山的颁奖典礼上，台湾的工业技术研究院（ITRI）荣获享负盛名的《华尔街日报》2009年科技创新奖，勇夺消费性电子类首奖。工研院以其开创性的FleXpeaker音响喇叭脱颖而出，击败如惠普和摩托罗拉等业界龙头。这款薄如纸片又可挠曲的设计，是由微小的可弯曲喇叭所聚集制成，可组合成几乎任意尺寸的扬声器系统。尖端科技与独具巧思的设计使得工研院这款金奖发明坐上全球最轻薄扬声器的宝座。这款纸喇叭的可塑性极高，可用剪刀裁切成各种形状，且兼具节能的优点，目前已有相当多可能的应用。虽然这款革命性的产品尚未上市，消费者将有望看见它在汽车音响、平面电视、手机以及广告广告牌上的应用。

Women Win Big as Obama Nobel Gets Mixed Reaction 2009诺贝尔奖：女性大放异彩，欧巴马引争议

Women celebrated 2009 as a year of unprecedented achievement in the history of the Nobel Prize as they claimed a record-breaking five awards. Elinor Ostrom topped off the occasion by becoming the first woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in economics. Only 40 females have been recognized by the Nobel committees, including the renowned scientist Marie Curie in 1903 and again in 1911. Meanwhile, Shanghai-born Charles Kao, an academician of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. He received the distinction for his work in the field of fiber optic communications, which revolutionized the way telephone, Internet, and television signals are transmitted. The real talking point, though, had to be U.S. President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Foundation said it was acknowledging Obama for his attempts to strengthen global diplomacy. But many found the decision controversial and said it was much too early in Obama’s presidency to make him a Nobel laureate.

2009年女性在诺贝尔奖大放异彩，拿下破纪录的5座奖项，缔造史无前例的卓越成就。其中伊莉诺．欧斯壮更成为第一位获颁经济学奖的女性，写下辉煌的一页。历来只有40位女性曾受到诺贝尔委员会的表彰，包括著名的科学家居礼夫人于1903年及1911年的两度获奖。而上海出生的台湾中研院院士高锟则拿下诺贝尔物理奖，以其在光纤通讯领域的卓越贡献获此殊荣，他的研究彻底改变了电话、网络及电视讯号的传递模式。不过，引起最多争议的还是美国总统欧巴马获和平奖一事。诺贝尔基金会表示，颁发此奖是要表扬欧巴马强化国际外交的努力，但很多人认为此项决定颇具争议性，更表示让欧巴马在总统任职初期便戴上诺贝尔桂冠实在为时过早。

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