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New Design for Wall Socket Fights Old Problem of Vampire Power

The Eco-Socket tries to solve that old problem of getting you to unplug devices you're not using.
10 Ways to Monitor Power in a Tiny Apartment

We've been hearing about the smart grid and the smart home for years, but if you start from scratch, how smart can you actually make your 420-square-foot apartment in terms of its energy and other resource consumption? Monitor and Manage Power in a Tiny A
Witches Use Natural Products to Put a Hex on Politicians

If you are a Romanian politician, don't mess with the witches. Witches in that country are reacting strongly and with great venom to the introduction of taxes on their business.
Power-Saving Plug Concept Highlights Hits and Misses in Device Design

Power-saving plug concepts have become a dime a dozen, and most of them aren't actually all that useful or practical. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case with the latest design shown off over at Yanko called the Sticord Power
TrickleStar Adds New Energy-Saver Tool To Line-Up - The TrickleStrip

The name is questionable - I keep wanting to read it as TickleStrip, making it sound like some sort of toy we'd list in this buy guide, or something Sami would write about - but actually, it has nothing to do with that.
CES 2010 - Embertec Cuts Vampire Power With One Device, Zero Effort (Video)

Image via Embertec Embertec is looking to take a bite out of vampire power with their solution that doesn't require the user to do anything different, or learn anything new. Pretty basic, right? Check out a video of the technology after the jump.
Outspoken Carbon Monitoring: Zerofootprint's RFID TalkingPlugs

The CEO of Zerofootprint, Ron Dembo, is a man who has often written and been written about on TreeHugger. Now it looks like this outspoken man is ready to let the world's power plugs start speaking for themselves. Zerofootprint, his energy and carbon
Readers, Send Us Photos of The One Green Object You Just Can't Live Without!

Are you a sushi fan slave to a sustainable seafood pocket guide--we hear Fabien Cousteau's a fan--or do you use a Kill-A-Watt to combat your fear of wasted energy? Prove it! We want to
PecoBOO: Now Your Computer Sees When You're Gone

Tweaking your computer's energy saving settings is a no-brainer. But that's just the trouble: the computer is making a "dumb" decision to dim the monitor or go to sleep after a preset time. VeryPC, the British maker of energy-efficient
USB Hub With On/Off Switches for Energy Efficiency

We're all over smart power strips that allow you to cut power to individual ports and cut phantom power loads. But we haven't yet seen one for USB devices...until now. Fareastgizmos lets us know about this 4-port USB hub from
Could Board Games Challenge Television in A Carbon Conscious World?

Mark did a post the other day on a couple that have reduced the electronic clutter of their life and turned their back on TV, the internet and digital music. Some readers wondered what they did with their time instead. The post and comments led me to
TrickleStar's PC TrickleSwitch Adds Options to Fight Vampire Power

Back in January's Consumer Electronic's Show, we talked with the creators of TrickleStar about their device that combats vampire power for computer and entertainment systems. They're now launching a new device to add to the system
Ultra Surge Protector for Hand-to-Hand Combat with Vampire Power

For the last nine years I've used a surge protector with individual switches for each electrical port. It allowed me to selectively shut power off to various peripherals, instead of having to shut off the whole strip like what you
CES 2009: Powermat Sports Green Charging, Or Does It?

Powermat has an exclusive looking booth at CES. I got an appointment to go in and see what their technology has in store for charging gadgets. The basic rundown of Powermat is: You have a single mat that plugs into the wall.
CES 2009: Fun with iGO Chargers (Video)

iGO, as we mentioned last week, is excited about launching a new laptop charger with "green technology" embedded in it to help combat vampire power.
CES 2009: Trickle Star Combats Vampire Power With Simple Device (Video)

It might be one of the sleeker devices we've seen so far to combat vampire power. It's from Trickle Star and reportedly helps fight vampire power from accessories associated with your computer or entertainment set-ups.
CES 2009: Smart Charger Strip Added to Smart Strip Family

We've talked about the Smart Strip quite a bit before - the power strip that can put an end to vampire power. Mainly it's used for cutting power to slave devices when one main device, like a computer, is shut off.
CES 2009: Christopher Knight Helps Kick off Green Plug's First Product

Green Plug, a smart charging technology we've been watching for awhile, debuted its first Greentalk-integrated product, Innergie. Innergie is