Is it really too hard to move the bed, unplug a power strip and buy a new lamp if it means reducing our chances of illness while likely improving sleep, productivity and general well-being?

如果仅仅搬一搬床铺，拔一下插头，买一个新台灯就能够减少生病的几率，增加我们的睡眠质量，生产力和生活质量。何乐而不为呢？

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S tomato lamp calls attention to the amount of natural resources needed to produce even the smallest amount of power for everyday living.

这盏西红柿灯唤起了对可提供日常生活能源的自然资源的数量需求的关注，哪怕只能提供有限的一点能源。

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Fiftyyears ago this Sunday, Theodore Maiman and his fellow scientists atHughes Research Laboratory shined a high-power flash lamp on a rubyrod, triggering a beam of coherent light: the first laser.

50年前的这个星期天，休斯研究实验室的西奥多.梅曼和科学家用高功率闪光灯照射红宝石棒，引发光束相干： 第一台激光器 。

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It was also a hot week for energy-generating tech as Intel unveiled a solar laptop chipset that can be powered by a desk lamp and MIT developed a tiny kinetic generator that can produce 100 times more power than previous devices of its kind.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: sun-powered homes, retro robots and a solar laptop chipset