万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-07-14&07-15, 儿童专用手机（在线收听） |
| Hello, I'm David Pogue, now as a technology columnist,I must say, I'm blissfully free of the kind of heated contentious controversy that dogs other kinds of columnists, those who write about, say, politics or religion, or Ashley Simpson. But this week, I'm afraid I've really stepped in it. I reviewed these. What? Cellphones for kids? They don't need any outside plant. Go away! Not only that do I think it's a great idea, I mean, I would buy stocking it. Cellphones for, for 6-year-olds? Come on. When they get lost at the mall, or I am blamed picking them up, how do I get one? When I grew up, we didn't have any technology at all,look out, I've treated that OK, goodbye. Now I should explain that these aren't ordinary cellphones, they don't do pictures, text messaging, voice mail or e-mail, they don't get on the Internet. In fact, they can't even dial out, except certain preprogrammed numbers that you've input. For example, the firefly has buttons for mom, dad, and a phone book button that lists up to 20 other authorized numbers. Verizon's Migo phone can dial a maximum of 5 numbers, but it does have the best sound and construction quality plus a speakerphone and a vibrate-phone. And then there is the Tic-Talk. It's built really cheaply and you're supposed to talk into it like a speakerphone. But it's filled with educational games and you program it from a website which is a really great idea. They are pretty cool-looking. In fact, most of the 5 to 10year-olds I showed them to were pretty enthusiastic. Wow, this is awesome, can me, please, pretty please , have this, pretty please with....., please, please...please!! What a great thing! The phone was cool. I should know, however, that the status conscious age group over about 11 were somewhat, less enthusiastic? I would not because, Dad will call on this thing in public. Get me a real cellphone. So this is a phone, that only calls my parents, great. The age when Americans first get a cellphone has been dropping year after year. And thanks to cellphones like these, kindergareners are now packing cell phones. And guess what? I don’t think that's the end of it. Daddy? Yeah, hi, how are you? Hey , listen, I'm learning a little late this afternoon, why don't you meet me out in front and I'll pick you up after karate and then we can go on... ---------------------------------------- Outside plant: 1. In civilian telecommunications, all cables, conduits, ducts, poles, towers, repeaters, repeater huts, and other equipment located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in another switching center or customer premises. Note: The demarcation point may be at a distribution frame, cable head, or microwave transmitter. 2. In DOD communications, the portion of intrabase communications equipment between the main distribution frame (MDF) and a user end instrument or the terminal connection for a user instrument. karate: A Japanese art of self-defense in which sharp blows and kicks are administered to pressure-sensitive points on the body of an opponent. |
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