He takes care of all of the plants from young 进入查看:2022-2023学年英语周报八年级第7期答案及试题 以下内容仅作展示,图片上方文字进入查看。 He takes care of all of the plants from young plants to their adult stage, and a large part of his business is selling the seeds (种子).He has traveled across eastern North America collecting different plants and seeds. From those, he grows seeds for the next generation of plants. To give customers an idea of what their seed purchase(购买)will look like, Platteborze built an oversized flower box in the store. Different kinds of plants are there for visitors to examine and learn about, and to provide the kind of environment that will make people want to stay for a while. “I want to offer a feeling of peace, and a place where they can just sit and think and share their interest in connecting to nature,“ Platteborze said. "And they can take part of that with them to their house. ” Platteborze’s mother thinks that his love of plants is connected with his deafness. Deaf babies often have trouble with balance, and it took Platteborze three times the normal amount of time to learn to sit up. As a result, Haverington said, he spent quite a long time belly-side(腹部)down in the grass, nose-to-nose with plants and bugs.
Austrian company Tec-Innovation recently disclosed 进入查看:2022-2023学年英语周报八年级第23期答案及试题 以下内容仅作展示,图片上方文字进入查看。 Austrian company Tec-Innovation recently disclosed smart shoes that use sensors to help people suffering from blindness or vision damage to detect obstacles up to four meters away. Known as InnoMake, the smart shoe may become a possible alternative to the decades-old walking stick that millions of people depend on to get around as safely as possible. The currently available model relies on sensors to detect obstacles and warns the wearer via vibration and an alert sounded on a Bluetooth-linked smartphone. “Sensors on the toe of the shoe detect obstacles up to four meters away. The wearer is then warned by vibration and/or acoustic(听觉的)signals. This works very well and is already a great help to me personally,” Markus Raffer, one of the founders of Tec-Innovation, himself visually damaged, said. That sounds impressive enough, but the company is already working on a much more advanced version that combines cameras and artificial intelligence to not only detect obstacles but also their nature. “Not only is the warning that I am facing an obstacle relevant, but also the information about what kind of obstacle I am facing. Because it makes a big difference whether it’s a wall, a car or a staircase,” Raffer claimed.