Taking the Paper Out of Morning Paper

Taking the Paper Out of Morning Paper

K: Reading the front page over a cup of coffee might be headed in a digital direction. On this week’s Eco Solutions, Frederik Pleitgen show us how engineers are putting a new twist on the morning paper and how this new gadget might help save trees around the world.

-be headed ...으로 나아가다, 향하다 -put a new twist on ...에 새 발전을 이루다.

F: Four billion. That’s an estimate of how many trees are cut down every year to make paper products. Gentlemen, put down your chain saws because the Plastic Logic E-reader is almost here.

-estimate 추정

R: The device is kind of very thin, very light. It is about the size and weight of a pad of paper.

-It is about the size and weight of … 정도의 크기와 무게이다

F: Due out next year, the E-reader says so long to all of those piles of paper.

-due out 출시할 예정인 -say so long to …에 작별인사를 하다

R: It works by taking anything that you would normally print out or read on paper, like a newspaper or a magazine, and transfers them from either computer or wirelessly, you know, to the device so that you can read them.

F: At this one of a kind production facility in Dresden, Germany, nanotech is saving Mother Nature where an environmentally friendly process creates the E-papers’ unique flexible plastic design. And with the swipe of a thumb, Plastic Logic hopes to usher in a green reading revolution.

-environmentally friendly 환경친화적인 -plastic 가소성 있는 -swipe 강타, 두들김

-usher in ...을 예고하다, ...의 도래를 알리다

R: No more cutting down trees, mass production of paper, no big printing presses. And of course, no big trucks distributing the paper.

-mass production 대랑생산 -printing press 인쇄기 -distribute 배급하다, 유통시키다

F: An estimated 1.7 billion people read one of these every day. If Plastic Logic has its way, selling a few E-readers might just save a few of these.

-have one’s way 배급하다, 유통시키다

Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, Berlin.