双语新闻：无线充电技术将成主流

2014-08-14 14:47:29来源：可可英语

　　Last month, it was revealed that Toyota had plans torelease a plug-in electric Prius in 2016 that neededno plug at all to recharge, thanks to wirelesstechnology from a U.S. company called WiTricity. Thenext day, Intel announced plans to release acompletely wire-free personal computer by 2016—nopower cord, no monitor cable, nothing. Nine dayslater, Starbucks announced that it would begininstalling Duracell Powermat wireless charging pads intables and counters in its stores across the UnitedStates.

　　据媒体7月报道，丰田公司(Toyota)计划在2016年推出一款全新的混合动力版普锐斯(Prius)电动车，其特别之处在于，这款新车将完全不需要“插电”就能充电，这还要感谢一家名叫WiTricity的美国公司开发的无线充电技术。就在这条消息曝光后的次日，英特尔公司(Intel)也宣布将在2016年以前推出一款完全不需要任何电线的个人电脑，也就是说既不需要电源线，也不需要显示器连接线。9天后，星巴克(Starbucks)不甘落后地宣布，该公司将在美国的所有星巴克门店桌子和柜台上安装Duracell Powermat公司的无线充电平板。

　　For wireless charging technology, the news headlines in June were, well, rather electric. (This isthe part where you groan.)

　　对于无线充电技术来说，今年六月发布的种种消息，的确是让人挺“来电”的。

　　Look more closely, though, and you’ll notice that wireless charging tech is poised to breakthrough in the next few years, dramatically changing our relationship with our increasinglymobile, but still tethered, electronic devices. Thoratec, a healthcare company, is working withWiTricity on a wireless way to charge heart pumps and other medical equipment. LockheedMartin, the aerospace and defense giant, is working on a laser-based system to rechargedrones in mid-flight. The list goes on.

　　不过如果你对这个行业观察得更深入的话，你会发现，我们今天的电子设备虽然移动化程度越来越高，但终究还是离不开一根电线。而无线充电技术却将在未来几年里显著地改变我们与各种电子设备的关系。医疗器械公司Thoratec目前正在与WiTricity公司合作研究给人工心脏和其他医疗设备无线充电的方法。国防航天巨头洛克希德马丁公司(Lockheed Martin)也正在开发一套镭射系统，用来给飞行中的无人机充电。其他从事无线充电技术研究的公司还有很多。

　　The wireless power market is expected to explode from a $216 million in 2013 to $8.5 billion in2018 globally, according to IHS Technology, a market research firm. Why, then, are most of usstill wrestling with a pile of cords at home?

　　据市调机构IHS科技公司的数据预测，全球无线充电市场的规模有望从2013年的2.16亿美元飙升至2018年的85亿美元。那么我们大多数人何必还要在家里放一大堆充电器呢?

　　“The reality is that the overall wireless charging market for consumer electronics is in the veryearly stages,” says Kamil Grajski, vice president of engineering at Qualcomm and the foundingpresident of the Alliance for Wireless Power, or A4WP for short, one of three groups working onthe development of wireless charging technologies.

　　高通公司(Qualcomm)的工艺副总裁、无线电源联盟(A4WP)的创始人兼总裁卡米尔o格拉吉斯基指出：“现实中，消费电子产品的无线充电市场总体上还处于非常初级的阶段。”格拉吉斯基创立的无线电源联盟是从事无线充电技术研发的三大组织之一。

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