apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

We make it a goal any time we walk away from our laptop+external monitor setup to not only put the system to sleep, but also to turn off the monitor to save energy. It's a small step, but we're all about promoting small steps alongside the big ones; they're all important. But it is also a practice all too easy to forget when running to check on your pasta or catch a 10 minute clip on G4. So we're big fans of this new technological feature from Eizo Nanao which integrates a motion sensor to provide active power only when the user is in front of the monitor, powering down to power save mode when nobody is detected for 40 seconds or more...