Souping Up Ordinary Light Bulbs

"An ultra-powerful laser can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers, say optics researchers at the University of Rochester. The process could make a light as bright as a 100-watt bulb consume less electricity than a 60-watt bulb while remaining far cheaper and radiating a more pleasant light than a fluorescent bulb can."

Personally I dislike the compact flourescent bulbs for anything but inaccessible applications. They are costly, have the wrong colour temperature, don't work with dimmers and are difficult to dispose of properly. Rehabilitating incandescent technology sounds good to me.