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TV TrickleSaver Saves You Time ...and Energy!

We try and turn off all the unneccesary power-suckers in a standard routine every time we leave the house. The lights go off, the computer goes into sleep mode and the TV, DVD player and cable box eac...

Where Your Laptop's Power Goes

When you're almost out of juice and reach for your laptop's power cord, you just see two things: your power-draining thousand-dollar hunk of metal (couldn't it keep a three-hour charge last year?) and...

Mathmos AirSwitch Lamp: The Anti-Clapper

Remember The Clapper? As kids, we thought that turning on lights with just a clap of the hands was just about the closest thing to being super-human. As an adult, now we realize if you're not geriatri...

If the President Has 'The Button,' You Have 'The Switch'

You know that button? The one that the president can push at any time to basically alter the course of history? Well, we know that in the big picture what we do at home in our media rooms is only slig...

How to... Piss Off Everybody at The Sports Bar

Step One: Buy a TV-B-Gone universal remote control. Step Two: Buy a baseball bat. Step Three: Wait until the last two minutes of the neck-and-neck NFL game at your local Hooters, then activate said T...