It was deployed at a Cambridge University computer lab, and its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker so that lab users could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot.

它部署在剑桥大学的计算机实验室，其唯一目的是监视一个咖啡壶，使实验室用户可避免将时间浪费在一个空的咖啡壶上。

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When scientists pretreat neurons with this acid in the lab, the cells are significantly (though not completely) protected from free-radical damage. Yup: Coffee is a good source of antioxidants.

科学家在实验室用这种化合物预处理神经元后，神经细胞抗自由基损伤的能力明显增强。没错，咖啡是很好的抗氧化剂来源。

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By analyzing the traces of saliva left in a tooth bite or on a coffee cup, lab experts could narrow the age of a criminal suspect to a five-year range.

通过分析牙咬或在咖啡杯上留下的唾液痕迹，实验室的专家们可以把犯罪嫌疑人的年龄缩小到五年的范围之内。

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"You don't get your eureka moments sitting in the lab, as much as you do talking to a colleague over coffee, " says Alan Fish, Johns Hopkins's vice president for real estate.

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Those 10 undergo rigorous performance testing at the Trumbull, Conn. headquarters by white-coated lab technicians who run millions of pieces of paper through the equipment, spill coffee into copiers and jam paper clips into fax machines.

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These gadgets and gizmos may work in the MIT's lab, but there's still a long way to go before our clothing computes or our coffee machines know our caffeine cravings.

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