November 2008 Archives

Many sockets in the USA are un-switched, so your devices are much harder to switch off. This five dollar device gives you a switch for your sockets. Simple and effective product from Harriet Carter, they have a range of other useful power management products too.

Now that I'm back blogging, here is the lovely logo that Alex Deschamps-Sonsino from designswarm and tinker.it made for the site in response to my own poor efforts. If you want to link to the site and declare your i've switched position, then please feel free to use the image.

Thanks very much Alex, she also made the favicon for the site too.

I've been writing a book and bring up a small boy, so my attention drifted away from this site, sorry dear reader. In the meantime excellent devices like current cost have come on to the market, allowing for long term monitoring of household power consumption.
Many newer products like Pure's DAB radios and some Sony TVs are often sub 1W in idle mode, these efforts are to be commended. However this is great if you are buying a new radio or tv, but these tend to be products we own for a long, long time. Many people own a tv or radio for a decade or longer. Idle power consumption was not a marketing issue back then, so these products still exist, hence the need for switched power strips.