Smart Gadget Spits Out Your Electronics As Soon As They're Done Charging
You have probably already read articles about how the gadgets in your home act like vampires, sucking energy out of the house through their chargers. One of the biggest problems that most people face is that they plug their devices in to charge and then forget about them. The cell phone or mp3 player gets fully charged but failure to unplug it means that electricity is being stolen from the home. A new gadget could easily solve this problem. It's called the Outlet Regulator and what it does is spits your chargers out from the wall as soon as your gadgets are done charging.
Let's face it; we need our chargers these days. We plug them in to charge laptops, mobile phones, digital cameras, mp3 players and all sorts of other gadgets. We might try to be responsible about using them. We can use phone applications to have our phones tell us when they're done charging so that we can unplug them in a timely manner. We can try to use solar-powered chargers and other devices. But in the average home, there are still a lot of times when we plug in our chargers and then just forget about them until we need the device that's attached to them.
The problem with this habit is that we're wasting a lot of electricity. As soon as a charger is plugged into an outlet, it starts sucking electricity out of the house. Even if it's not charging anything, the charger is working. The more chargers that you have, the more likely it is that your energy bills have creeped up over the years for no other reason than that the chargers are sitting plugged into the wall.
The Outlet Regulator serves as a genius little device that solves this common problem. It's a gadget that plugs into your outlet. You then plug your chargers into the gadget (similar to how you would plug into a power strip that's plugged into an outlet). The gadget uses a timer circuit and electromechanics to determine when your device is done charging. As soon as it's done, it spits itself out of the wall. All energy consumption ceases and you save money on your electric bill.
Source: http://conorklein.com/index.php?/ongoing/outlet-regulator/
Publish Date: 2010-03-04 14:19:42
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