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Tricklestar's Trickleswitch Combats PC Vampire Power

The Tricklestar PC Standby Power Saver, released in January, promises to reduce household energy use by 12% by automatically cutting off electricity to PC peripherals when your computer is off. Today Tricklestar announced an ...READ»

Energy Consumption Gets Social with Tweet-a-Watt

Energy consumption habits are a private thing--sometimes you just don't want everyone knowing that you have a cell phone charger, computer, external hard drive, and iPod charger all draining energy at the same time you're also ...READ»

Five Great Green Gadgets (And a Few Stinkers)

At the second annual Greener Gadgets Conference in New York, the design competition was almost as notable for the gadgets that didn’t make the cut as for the ones that did. Note the Jiggy Bed, which promises to (you guessed it) ...READ»