Bye Bye Ugly A/C Bricks and Power Strips by Gilles Belley

07.04.07
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Bye Bye Ugly A/C Bricks and Power Strips

The Energy Saving Adapters by Gilles Belley not only look good but have some smarts behind them too. Each module corresponds to a device and monitors the power consumption independently. Most electrical devices have a standby mode to save energy but even then, about 10% of today’s electrical costs come from appliances wasting energy in that mode. The Energy Saving Adapters can detect this and display symbolic symbols notifying the owner of wasted energy. If someone doesn’t respond within 3 minutes, it automatically turns off said device.

It’s a gorgeous solution to visually show people how much power they’re wasting but there’s a catch 22 here. Someone like me would probably purposely leave everything on just to see the pretty lights on the adapters glow.

Designer: Gilles Belley & EDF Design

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34 Comments »

07.05.07
anarko_bizounours says

This is cool, but this produce was envisaged for different electric norm like, japanese norm, or french norm?

07.06.07
Futureboy says

Ugh. Someone tell the genius designer that if he just cuts the power, to, say, an inkjet printer as shown, that the heads aren’t going to be parked and it’ll leak ink and dry out rapidly, causing much more expense and waste.

07.17.07
Lyberty says

Go tell the genius designers of the the inkjet printers.

09.14.08
says says

wouldn’t that mean that when you have your inkjet on standby, the heads arent ‘parked’. they would dry out anyway? a printer was probably a bad example, especially with home use because people turn them off anyway.
nice solution to the clutter though!

07.06.07
Shu says

Nice idea to clean things up. I like the fact that most out let hangs below the table’s surface. I hope it becomes available soon. I hope that the cords can be modular too, I need a 30ft(10m) cord to the only outlet in my workshop.

07.08.07
lodzik says

all thees stuff are totally weak

07.17.07
Michael says

Um…what other kind of symbols are there?

07.25.07
Hyeros says

Woowww. it’s great. How can i buy that thing?

07.31.07
snorski says

all good and wel… but where do I buy them?

08.13.07
dong says

It’s awesome. when can we get this?

08.13.07
Daniel says

Cant they just publish where you can buy these things?

09.12.07
soteres says

WHERE can i buy it ??????

09.23.07
flescio says

where can we buy it ???

10.05.07
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