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I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense
有一個問題我思考了很久，就是我們能否進化出一種第六感官。
a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information
這種感官可以讓我們快速的、便捷的獲得元信息，或者是其他的一些信息，
that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across.
在我們需要做出一些決定的時候，這些信息能幫助我們做出正確的選擇。
And some of you may argue, "Well, don't today's cell phones do that already?" But I would say no.
你們可能會說，“當今的手機不正是如此嗎？”但是，我不認同。
When you meet someone here at TED -- and this is the top networking place, of course, of the year
假設，當你在TED遇到某人，毫無疑問，TED是每年最佳的社交場所。
you don't shake somebody's hand and then say, "Can you hold on for a moment while I take out my phone and Google you?"
難道你會不跟人家握手，然后說：“你能等一會嗎？我要用手機Google一下你。”
Or when you go to the supermarket and you're standing there in that huge aisle of different types of toilet papers,
或者，當你在超市里，站在一排巨大的貨架前，面對著各種各樣的廁紙，
you don't take out your cell phone, and open a browser, and go to a website
難道你會拿出手機，打開瀏覽器登錄一個網站，
to try to decide which of these different toilet papers is the most ecologically responsible purchase to make.
嘗試去決定到底哪一種廁紙才是最環保的，最應該買的？
So we don't really have easy access to all this relevant information
所以說，我們并沒有一個便捷的渠道去獲取這些信息，
that can just help us make optimal decisions about what to do next and what actions to take.
這些能幫助我們做出應該要干什么的最佳決定的信息。
And so my research group at the Media Lab has been developing a series of inventions to give us access to this information in a sort of easy way,
因此，我的實驗室的研發團隊完成了一系列的發明，幫助用戶快速簡單的獲取這些信息，
without requiring that the user changes any of their behavior.
在不改變用戶行為的條件下。
And I'm here to unveil our latest effort, and most successful effort so far, which is still very much a work in process.
現在，我將這個設備展示給大家。這是我們至今最成功的版本，仍然在不斷改進。
I'm actually wearing the device right now and we've sort of cobbled it together with components that are off the shelf
我現在正佩戴著，我們其實是把市面上常見的一些組件組裝在了一起。
and that, by the way, only cost 350 dollars at this point in time.
順便提一下，目前這個設備的成本是350美元。
