another thought: Accidental steppings could be a potential problem. An individual lock on each pedal would be nice, for optional locking.
But overall I see it as a potentially expensive solution for what most people view as a nonexistent problem to begin with (even though idle transformer power use and so forth is a problem).
A simple programmable electrical timer I think is a far better idea, and almost definitely would cost far less than this thing.
Real power buttons on most appliances would mitigate the bigger problem of idle and sleep power use, too.
How about not ejecting the plug...that seems excessive. Just have the little pedals be switches. ---- Yeah. Far better idea. Big switches. Or simply traditional small switched powerboards (selling cheapish everywhere) or touchswitches (two soft taps or a swiping motion to turn off, for example) for the really lazy and/or disabled.
After all, re-plugging things in goes against the "people are lazy, let's make it easy" kind of thing the design concept wordage speaks about on the link, but they fail to mention plugging things back in working against the ease-of-unplug.
Whoa. Hold on there, Skippy. I believe that 'nd' was just pointing out that it's pointless to eject them, as a switch would make them easier to turn back on again.
But, if you want to make your "people are lazy, let's make it easy" argument stick, it would help if you spelt (or spelled, in the US, to avoid comments from the pedants) the word 'sez' correctly. It's 'says'.
monkfishbandana, thanks for the spelling tip, I was wrong all these years ;)
I was talking about switches, if you read what I said. Not unplugging. But mentioned touch switches and/or regular switches instead of unplugging.
Not sure why you even responded like that. The article states ease of unplug, but doesn't talk about ease of plugging back in being an issue with their contraption (which it obviously would be). A switch (of various flavours) obviously makes that unnecessary, which is what I was on about.
Not even sure why you responded like that unless I confused you?
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tekdroid @ Mar 17th 2008 12:09PM
nice if the mechanism is reliable.
More importantly: look at the spacing between power points. That's what I call accommodating for fat plug packs :)
If it ever hits the market, I suspect the price will be ridiculous, meaning that lazyness and low cost wins the day (again).
tekdroid @ Mar 17th 2008 12:18PM
another thought:
Accidental steppings could be a potential problem. An individual lock on each pedal would be nice, for optional locking.
But overall I see it as a potentially expensive solution for what most people view as a nonexistent problem to begin with (even though idle transformer power use and so forth is a problem).
A simple programmable electrical timer I think is a far better idea, and almost definitely would cost far less than this thing.
Real power buttons on most appliances would mitigate the bigger problem of idle and sleep power use, too.
nd @ Mar 17th 2008 12:36PM
How about not ejecting the plug...that seems excessive. Just have the little pedals be switches.
tekdroid @ Mar 17th 2008 12:56PM
nd @ Mar 17th 2008 12:36PM sez:
How about not ejecting the plug...that seems excessive. Just have the little pedals be switches.
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Yeah. Far better idea. Big switches. Or simply traditional small switched powerboards (selling cheapish everywhere) or touchswitches (two soft taps or a swiping motion to turn off, for example) for the really lazy and/or disabled.
After all, re-plugging things in goes against the "people are lazy, let's make it easy" kind of thing the design concept wordage speaks about on the link, but they fail to mention plugging things back in working against the ease-of-unplug.
monkfishbandana @ Mar 17th 2008 2:45PM
@ tekdroid
Whoa. Hold on there, Skippy. I believe that 'nd' was just pointing out that it's pointless to eject them, as a switch would make them easier to turn back on again.
But, if you want to make your "people are lazy, let's make it easy" argument stick, it would help if you spelt (or spelled, in the US, to avoid comments from the pedants) the word 'sez' correctly. It's 'says'.
tekdroid @ Mar 17th 2008 11:17PM
monkfishbandana, thanks for the spelling tip, I was wrong all these years ;)
I was talking about switches, if you read what I said. Not unplugging. But mentioned touch switches and/or regular switches instead of unplugging.
Not sure why you even responded like that. The article states ease of unplug, but doesn't talk about ease of plugging back in being an issue with their contraption (which it obviously would be). A switch (of various flavours) obviously makes that unnecessary, which is what I was on about.
Not even sure why you responded like that unless I confused you?