Tag: POWER STRIP

Our favorite group of New York DIY aficionados set up a booth at a Pepcom event tonight, but not at CES itself. The Quirky crew did show all of its typical crowd-sourced wares, developed by their community of "influencers" (letting those with ideas make money, and change, in the realm of gadgetry), but Quirky had something rare to offer, too. Within the prior 24 hours, the team had built a ...

Know why we love design students? Because their energy and creativity seems so boundless that they frequently come up with products that make us scratch our heads, thinking, "Oh, duh, why didn't Phillips build this ages ago and make millions?" Case in point: Rhode Island School of Design student Conor Klein's Outlet Regulator. By now, many of us know that electronics left plugged into outlets, ...

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 ...

Sometimes we see a simple innovation to an everyday product and think, "Why didn't we think of this?" Kreative Power's Powramid power strip is one of those products. Kreative simply took your standard power strip and made it circular. *Yawn*, we know -- but wait: This basic change in design, complete with 45-degree angles for the outlets, means that wall-warts (power transformers on the plug) ...