Is your TV  (connect) to the Internet？What about your chair, or your fridge?  (probable) they are not.  in the future, most things in your home may be connected, thanks to the so- called "Internet of things".

    The Internet of things may be coming sooner  you think. Earlier this year, Samgsung CEO spent a lot of time  (talk.) about the Internet of things. He said that five years from now, every Samgsung product  (be) part of the Internet of things, no matter . It's a remote control or a washingmachine.

    So, how do household(家用的)  (object) that are part of the Internet of things work? Well, think of a common chair, when connected to the Internet, the chair  (warm) up when it knows the user has just walked into the room and is feeling cold.

    So, picture this: you enter your home. The temperature changes to make you  (feel) comfortable. Your favorite music starts playing for you. Do you think that this would be a good thing? It may happen sooner than you think.

    On school nights, lots of kids have to do their reading before they are allowed to watch TV. Pretty soon, you might get to do both at the same time, in true Harry Potter style.

    Several companies are racing to produce electronic paper and ink, complete with colors and moving imagines (图像). One idea would be to create a newspaper like The Daily Project in the Harry Potter books. Its pages would hold video clips of baseball games instead of just black-and-white photos.

    Electronic paper is not a new idea. A company in Massachusetts called E Ink, for example, has been working for years on such a technology. Little electricity determines(决定) whether each microsphere(微球) looks black or white at any given time. Together, microspheres make up words and imagines. The technique seems promising for creating still imagines that can be changed

when needed, but the process(进程) is too slow for good videos.

    Scientists in the Netherlands now report a new type of e-paper technology. By using layers (层) of oil, the requirements say that they can also make images which change fast enough to meet standard video requirements. They can also make brilliant colors. So far, however, each image is smaller than the fingernail.

    For now, reading and watching TV will have to return two separate activities. Keep your eyes open, though. In the future, TV watching and reading might be part of the same work.

    During the past one hundred years, there have been many inventions. Most of them make our life much  (容易) and more interesting. TV is one of them. Many people enjoy watching TV for  (乐趣). Some even believe that TV has  (使得) their children smarter because there are all kinds of information on it such as news,  (科学),sports, music and language. Children can learn a lot from TV in a short time without going out. Many parents are happy to know this because they  (自己) are too busy to spend time with their children.

    But we have found that more and more children today have problems  (阅读), thinking and concentrating even though they have watched a lot of TV. In fact, getting much information doesn't  (意味着) real learning. Children who watch too much TV don't have  (足够) time to think or communicate with people.  (除此之外), it takes time and love for children to grow up.  What children need  (最多) is their parents. Parents give children love, help them solve problems and teach children what real life is.