Jun 07 2008
GreenPlug takes a look under your desk
It’s the weekend, and yes it’s a gorgeous California day outside but I just crawled out from under my desk from my semi-annual 45-degree rotation of my desk so the moving Phoebus aestus doesn’t shine in my eyes through the large windows beyond my monitor.
You wouldn’t believe the mess under my desk unless you too share in the mangle of tangled wires that seems to grow with every new laptop, phone, camera charger, abandoned flash card reader, and mystery pile of AC adapters that belong to…who knows what. Many of these use power supplies that suck phantom power and waste energy.
Lunch@Piero’s sponsor, GreenPlug, recently announced the winners of the “What’s Under Your Desk” photo sweepstakes.
The best picture by John Trosko of Los Angeles,
won him lunch with green advocates, Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry, co-hosts of the VH-1 reality show, “My Fair Brady.” Second prize winner, Chris Johnston won a $500 shopping spree at Wal-Mart and a $250 contribution to his favorite green non-profit by GreenPlug. Third place winner, Michael Arnold, will direct his prize to a local school program to educate kids about conservation, recycling and alternative energy.
GreenPlug was the center of attention at Lunch@Piero’s when they showed their embeddable power supply technology that enables real-time collaboration between electronic devices and their power sources. What does that mean? It means that devices and their power supplies will know when they’re fully charged or off – in either case they don’t need more power. And did you know that billions of devices like laptops, mobile phones, routers, power tools etc require a power source that converts 90v and 254v wall power to device-specific DC power? That means you need a bunch of unique power converters…hello landfill!
Wanna know more? See GreenPlug at the Alliance for Universal Power Supplies conference in San Francisco June 13, 2008. Wanna make your voice heard? Here’s a petition to be sent to Washington supporting a universal green power standard.
