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From the Ted Talk by Jamais Cascio: Tools for a better world

Unscramble the Blue Letters


An Earth Witness site could also serve as a collection spot for all sorts of data about conditions around the planet picked up by eninarmnotevl sensors that attcah to your cell phone. Now, you don't see these deecivs as add-ons for phones yet, but settndus and eeinrgens around the world have attached atmospheric sensors to bicycles and handheld computers and cheap robots and the bkacs of pigeons — that being a project that's actually underway right now at U.C. Irvine, using bird-mounted sensors as a way of measuring smog-forming puloilotn. It's hardly a srcetth to imagine putting the same thing on a phone craerid by a person. Now, the idea of connecting a sensor to your phone is not new: phone-makers around the world offer phones that sniff for bad breath, or tell you to wrroy about too much sun exposure. Swedish firm Uppsala Biomedical, more seriously, makes a mobile phone add-on that can process blood tests in the field, uploading the data, displaying the results. Even the Lawrence lemvorire National Labs have gotten into the act, designing a prototype phone that has radiation snroses to find dirty bombs.

Open Cloze


An Earth Witness site could also serve as a collection spot for all sorts of data about conditions around the planet picked up by _____________ sensors that ______ to your cell phone. Now, you don't see these _______ as add-ons for phones yet, but ________ and _________ around the world have attached atmospheric sensors to bicycles and handheld computers and cheap robots and the _____ of pigeons — that being a project that's actually underway right now at U.C. Irvine, using bird-mounted sensors as a way of measuring smog-forming _________. It's hardly a _______ to imagine putting the same thing on a phone _______ by a person. Now, the idea of connecting a sensor to your phone is not new: phone-makers around the world offer phones that sniff for bad breath, or tell you to _____ about too much sun exposure. Swedish firm Uppsala Biomedical, more seriously, makes a mobile phone add-on that can process blood tests in the field, uploading the data, displaying the results. Even the Lawrence _________ National Labs have gotten into the act, designing a prototype phone that has radiation _______ to find dirty bombs.

Solution


  1. devices
  2. stretch
  3. environmental
  4. students
  5. carried
  6. engineers
  7. sensors
  8. worry
  9. backs
  10. livermore
  11. attach
  12. pollution

Original Text


An Earth Witness site could also serve as a collection spot for all sorts of data about conditions around the planet picked up by environmental sensors that attach to your cell phone. Now, you don't see these devices as add-ons for phones yet, but students and engineers around the world have attached atmospheric sensors to bicycles and handheld computers and cheap robots and the backs of pigeons — that being a project that's actually underway right now at U.C. Irvine, using bird-mounted sensors as a way of measuring smog-forming pollution. It's hardly a stretch to imagine putting the same thing on a phone carried by a person. Now, the idea of connecting a sensor to your phone is not new: phone-makers around the world offer phones that sniff for bad breath, or tell you to worry about too much sun exposure. Swedish firm Uppsala Biomedical, more seriously, makes a mobile phone add-on that can process blood tests in the field, uploading the data, displaying the results. Even the Lawrence Livermore National Labs have gotten into the act, designing a prototype phone that has radiation sensors to find dirty bombs.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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mobile phones 4
growing global 2
growing number 2
cell phone 2
camera phones 2
web portal 2
digital cameras 2
witness project 2
avian flu 2
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Important Words


  1. act
  2. atmospheric
  3. attach
  4. attached
  5. backs
  6. bad
  7. bicycles
  8. biomedical
  9. blood
  10. bombs
  11. breath
  12. carried
  13. cell
  14. cheap
  15. collection
  16. computers
  17. conditions
  18. connecting
  19. data
  20. designing
  21. devices
  22. dirty
  23. displaying
  24. earth
  25. engineers
  26. environmental
  27. exposure
  28. field
  29. find
  30. firm
  31. handheld
  32. idea
  33. imagine
  34. irvine
  35. labs
  36. lawrence
  37. livermore
  38. measuring
  39. mobile
  40. national
  41. offer
  42. person
  43. phone
  44. phones
  45. picked
  46. pigeons
  47. planet
  48. pollution
  49. process
  50. project
  51. prototype
  52. putting
  53. radiation
  54. results
  55. robots
  56. sensor
  57. sensors
  58. serve
  59. site
  60. sniff
  61. sorts
  62. spot
  63. stretch
  64. students
  65. sun
  66. swedish
  67. tests
  68. underway
  69. uploading
  70. uppsala
  71. witness
  72. world
  73. worry