Twinkle, twinkle, little World Wide Web router. And cell phone. And digital video recorder. And cable modem. And game console. And potential strip. And TV — even though it’s turned off.

Turn off the lamps in a living room or bedroom today, and chances are good the room will still be aglow with the tiny diode lights of a half-dozen gadgets.

They can be useful indicators of what state a gadget it is in, or where it is, but

they additionally irritate citizens who’d rather not have lights shining in their faces when they’re trying to sleep or watch movies.

To sleep in a dorm room full of electronics at Cornell University, Rafael Garcia has covered some lights with black tape. He turns his laptop upside-down and places a mouse pad and a picture of his girlfriend on his desktop computer to block its lights. His electric toothbrush has to come […]

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