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'Power Aware' Power Strip Glows With Your Energy Use

The Power Aware Cord is a power strip in the nude. Rather than visually shielding the complex transfer of energy contained in the cord, the Power Aware Cord glows and pulses in varying rhythms, depending on your energy consumption. As a visual reminder of your electrical use, the Power Aware Cord reminds us to shut off or shut down those energy-sucking appliances that continue to siphon current ...

Googling Causes Greenhouse Gases, Physicist Says

While it may seem that things done in cyberspace exist in a bubble, they're not; computer-related stuff leaves its mark as well. Along those lines, here's a troubling fact: performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate roughly the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle of water. Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross is completing a study on the environmental ...