新华网北京10月15日电 根据科技博客网站Gizmodo报道,来自瑞士洛桑艺术大学的学生Alice Robbiani设计出一种给iphone充电的感应充电器，能使手机成为挂钟。

    有无数种方法可以替代Spira能做的两件事情：给手机充电和报时。但是一名来自交互设计专业的学生Alice Robbiani所制作的设备却能使其合二为一，她的感应充电器能使iphone在充电时成为一只交互式的挂钟。

    在她瑞士洛桑艺术大学的毕业论文中，她制作了一个给iphone充电的感应式充电台和一个应用程序，取名为Spira。充电时屏幕上的每一个球形代表了10%的手机电池电量。充电台本身附着在的金属边框上，当你把手机放上去，它像一个挂壁的设备。边框的表面被涂满了热变色油墨，当手机充电时，表面呈现出钟表形状。

    更酷的是，当你垂直旋转手机时，手机屏幕上也呈现出钟表形态，这与被涂满热变色油墨的框架融为一体。

    此时你的手机不仅在感应充电中，它还可以作为一只特设的挂钟陪伴你等待充电。正如Robbiani所说：“它总能自豪的处于家中一隅”。

    虽然这个新奇的理念只是一次性的，但是考虑到Robbiani暂时只是一个学生，这个雏形本身就令人称赞。没有什么能比将智能手机与居家环境融为一体的创意更高妙了！

This Inductive Charger Makes Powering Up Your iPhone Beautiful

    There are plenty of ways to do the two things that Spira does: Charge your phone and tell you the time. But there's nothing quite like the device that interaction design student Alice Robbiani has built to combine them—her inductive charger turns your iPhone into an interactive wall clock while it charges.

    For her thesis at ECAL in Lausanne, Robbiani built an inductive charging dock for her iPhone and an app, called Spira, that displays charging levels on the screen using balls that each represent 10 percent of your phone's battery life. The dock itself is attached to a metal frame, which looks like a simple wall mount until you actually put your phone down on it: The face of the frame is painted in thermochromatic ink, and displays a clock-like pattern when the phone is charging.

    Here's the cool part: When you rotate your phone vertically, the face becomes a clock that corresponds to the thermochromatic clock face on the frame:

    So not only is your phone now being charged inductively—it's acting as an ad hoc wall clock while you wait, which Robbiani calls "a place of honor in the home atmosphere."

    It's a novel (and unfortunately, one-off) concept, but it's a pretty incredible prototype considering that Robbiani is still a student. And as far as ways to integrate your smartphone with your home-based systems, it couldn't be more clever. [CreativeBOOM; ECAL]