Product review: Bye Bye Standby
If most homes in Britain bought one of these Bye Bye Standby energy saving kits, we'd all save around £37 a year. Big deal, you might well think, but the green implications a far more impressive.
Currently, by leaving PCs, televisions, printers, coffee machines and so forth on standby, we are collectively wasting the equivalent output of two and a half power stations, while are gadgets to absolutely nothing except blink at us. Installing a gadet that makes it easy to switch them off with one press of a button could prevent all of that waste. Susi Weaser took one home...
...not sure about this one. Just looks like another remote to lose (how many can a brain cope with?) and if it isn't in sight will you remember to look for it and then press the right button on it? You could just have a sticky note near the light switch reminding you to switch the plugs OFF. Or is that just not enough 'fun' for some?
Posted by: yardbird1 | March 9, 2007 7:06 PM