Gadget Management System
Date: October 14, 2008 | Category: Lifestyle, Stores & Resources, Tech
Balancing the need for electricity with a yearning to lead an eco-friendly life has been the bane of many a geek’s existence. All those gadgets need to be juiced up to keep working, which puts a real kink in any attempt to lower your carbon footprint.
To get a grasp on how much power your various devices consume consider investing in the Kill A Watt, a product that allows you to assess how efficient your appliances and toys are by measuring how much electricity they consume. Just plug them into the device and an LCD display counts consumption by the Kilowatt-hour, the same way utility companies do.
In addition to helping you monitor your electrical expenses by the hour, day, week, month or even by the year, Kill A Watt will allow you to determine which gadgets are the biggest electricity hogs - read, unplug these when they are not in use.
This is a gadget to help you manage your gadgets (a.k.a. an eco-geek’s dream realized.)
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