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Saving on Standby Power

by Benjamin Ellis on June 6, 2009 in Gadgets, geekstuff, homehacking, Technology • 3 Comments

I’ve been out buying gadgets to save on standby power. The exciting one mentioned in the video is this fellow: It is a Standby Saver Energy Saving Unit – as seen on Dragon’s Den, apparently. As explained in the video, it shuts off the power to all of the sockets when the computer powers down. There is a version for for AV… Read more →

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