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Posts tagged “electricity & power”

The Elegant Hanging Tiki Column Radiator By ADhoc

It's hard to describe what you feel when you look at this. Would you believe that it's actually a radiator? Carlo Martino totally changed what we'd expect from a radiator, by making it incredibly beau...

Trane's Deluxe Programmable Digital Thermostat

Everyone knows that using a programmable thermostat is a must if you heat during winters. The trouble is that most people don't know how to program them or they just don't do it. Most of the costs of ...

Preventing Vampire Energy at the Twist of an Socket

Plugs, sockets and outlets seem to be on the mind of many industrial designers these days, with new ideas that make pulling them out or plugging into them easier. Or designs that try to minimize their...

Juice Up Your iPhone The Green & Stylish Way

It's a common fact that you need to recharge your iPhone or iPod, no matter what. Usually, this involves plugging it into a USB plug or a power plug. Well, there have been quite a number of alternativ...

A Plug Designed to Make Us Think About Power

No matter how passionate you are about being green, it's still a tough effort. But its often hard to ignore something staring you in the face. Just like how it's easy to recycle with a recycling bin i...

Verner Panton: Wire Table Lamp

The lamp is back! Any object that is a mockery of its own functionality is a winner in our book. Why not have a table lamp that looks like the light bulb that should be inside of it?...

Rocking Powered Murakami Chair by Rochus Jacob

Why waste valuable kinetic energy created while leisurely rocking when you could power an OLED lamp while doing so? That's probably the question that spurred on this design by Rochus Jacob, resulting ...

Benjamin Hubert: Labware

It's great when you can find products that are not only great looking and functional, but also humorous at the same time. A great home (in my book) is one that doesn't take itself too seriously....

Six USB & Power Grommets for the Desk and Kitchen

One of the most common questions we receive is about hiding cables and wires in and around the computer. With the myriad of accessories that many of us live and depend upon, plugging in and out USB,...

Trufig Flush Mounted Devices

We've seen the Bocci flush wall outlets before and we were very intrigued but they seemed to be missing all the different types of outlets you may need for your walls. This new system by Trufig seem...

Belkin Conserve Surge Outlet Saves Money & Energy

We first mentioned this surge protector last year. What made it distinctive and useful is that it came with a remote that would switch off some of the outlets. Now, Belkin have announced an update to ...

Omer Arbel's 22 Series Electrical Wall Accessories

Omer Arbel did something so wonderful no-brainer with his electrical wall plug designs: he made them circular. By just changing the standard outlet from the normal recognizable shape into a circular...

Fandi Meng: Sunny Flower

We're always on the go, and always on our cell phones. Our cell phone batteries always seem to be dying and when you're at the park or walking around the city, well, there isn't much you can do abo...

HAI Energy Use Display & Monitoring System

Home Automation, Inc. is showing off this diminutive energy display, helping customers keep in touch with their home energy use with a graphical colour-coded display that is wirelessly updated from wi...

Switch Candle Leaves a Light on For You

Outlets and light switches are under-appreciated. You probably don't even notice they're there until one is in the wrong spot for your TV wiring or there's a wacky switch with weird connections......

Best Product: CyberPower 9-Outlet Intelligent LCD UPS

Seeing as many colleges seem to still be in the process of upgrading their power grid in the midst of all the incoming freshmen, we wouldn't be surprised if the power decided to cut out once or twice ...

Energizer Xpal: Cheap and Effective Power Pack

It's a given that at some point your fancy smartphone will run out of power. These devices tend to suck a lot of juice, which is why there are so many different power packs available to recharge them....

The USB Banana Charger

We're always looking for unique items to add to our office and we're pretty sure we need another battery charger. Especially because this one looks like something that would normally be found on ou...

Bluelounge Refresh Charging Station

Similar to the larger Sanctuary charging station, the newest compact Bluelounge Refresh is designed to keep your gear organized and fully charged while not in use (we think it's important to have a ...

Kodak Solar Charger Charge Your Gadgets With the Sun

It's a known fact that gadgets need to be recharged quite often. It's happened to everyone. It's easy to end up stranded with the power on your gadget just fizzling out. Once you have a dud, you are o...

Solé Integrated Solar Tiles by SRS Energy

This is the future: solar-energy-capturing products that look just like their non-solar counterparts. The Solé Power Tile is an electricity-generating tile that can be installed alongside traditional...

USB Battery Charger

Ha, we had this bookmarked to post about a little while ago, get back to it and now the sucker is sold out? Well, it's still a good product to place on backorder for those of us who have some spare US...

Eternaleds: Liquid Cooled LED Lasts 35,000 Hours

One of the easiest ways of saving money is by replacing your old school incandescent bulbs and replacing them with high tech alternatives. LEDs have been on the market for a few years, but Eternaleds ...

SolarStrap: Charge Your Gadgets While Traveling

When you are on the go, it gets really problematic to charge your gadgets. Sure, you can find plugs to power up some of the easily enough, but it's not always possible. At some point, you will run out...

Flip the Switch on Battery-Powered Devices

The only thing worse than realizing your remote control/razor/digital camera has killed it's batteries is peeking in the kitchen/utility closet/desk drawer and finding exactly one fewer battery than y...