http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/ Engadget Comments for Energy saving power-strip cuts the waste http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/
PS: Don't buy your power strips at the dollar store unless you want the smallest of surges to fry your gear! ;-)]]>Jul 6th 2007 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/
A few things on my desk that come to mind which would be drawing power even though they're 'off': PC speakers (wall wart p/s), printer (soft power off), monitor (brick p/s, soft power off), external drive (brick p/s).

I think part of the reason for this is that chunky 120/240v switches just aren't sexy enough for today's gadgets. We like soft switches you just touch or tap to turn a device on or off.]]>Jul 6th 2007 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/#1 It's clamped on the side of your desk. Well you can't really easily SEE IT to know how much power is being used.
#2 Most people want their power supply in back hidden.
#3 Anything more then a few devices and it'll be to long for a lot of peoples desks.
#4 That thing wouldn't even be able to clamp onto the side of my computer desk in the first place.
#5 Personally I think it's pretty ugly.
]]>Jul 6th 2007 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/1) Like Vegetable said, it USES power, too. Perhaps not as much as it saves? Still, a bit counterintuitive.
2) Wtf? Since when does industrial design include the philosophy of "let's let these leds drift away all willy nilly"? Seriously. What the crap.
3) Okay, it's nice to be able to hide the power strip...but it seems to me that this also makes it a lot harder to hide the cords leading TO the power strip. Like JBDragon pointed out, most people hide their power strips; putting the powerstrip in an obvious place also means putting all those wires in an obvious place. ugly.
4) The base unit has a clamp. None of the others do. If you get even the four power outlets pictured, it seems to me that the non-base-unit end of the "strip" is going to be AWFULLY easy to knock off the desk, and I doubt that one base-unit clamp is gonna have a lot of ability to prevent that from happening.

I applaud the idea, but there's some pretty good reasons this isn't on shelves yet.]]>Jul 6th 2007 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/
I just reached over and yanked the power cord off my printer that's been switched off. :)]]>Jul 6th 2007 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://talkingforum.wordpress.com]]>Jul 6th 2007 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/
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This guy made a device using petroleum based materials that are supposed to piggy-back your current power usage to tell you that you are using power (most likely miniscule amounts). I'd say this is a most ironic product.]]>Jul 6th 2007 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 6th 2007 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 7th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/Jul 7th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/06/energy-saving-power-strip-cuts-the-waste/
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