{"id":364471,"date":"2010-02-25T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5480366"},"modified":"2010-02-25T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:20:00","slug":"ambient-light-concept-pleasantly-reminds-you-your-gadgets-are-wasting-energy-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/364471","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Light Concept Pleasantly Reminds You Your Gadgets Are Wasting Energy [Concepts]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/ambient1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_ambient1.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;ll be at least a decade before <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5479460\/giz-explains-fuel-cells-and-bloom-energys-miracle-box\">the Bloom Box solves our energy crisis<\/a>. In the meantime, you&#8217;re gonna have to turn off your gadgets. This concept uses ambient light to gently remind you which are still sucking power.<\/p>\n<p>The design bears the creatively-sequenced name Saving Energy Multitap, and it&#8217;s intended as a replacement for your power strip. Instead of letting plugged-in gadgets&#8217; extra juice go to waste, the Multitap uses it to power a panel of four ambient lights. The lights announce which devices are running and double as touch-sensitive switches to let you easily turn them off.<\/p>\n<p><!-- videoId: uOG1RRrxoHQ --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/uOG1RRrxoHQ&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: uOG1RRrxoHQ --><\/p>\n<p>The idea is a nice one but, it seems to me, flawed; if I have to choose between basking in a soothing orange glow and being 100% energy efficient by turning all my electronics off, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m always going to make the right choice. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2010\/02\/25\/ambient-lights-get-powered-by-nothing\/\">Yanko Design<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=6b3bc926c4df0108ce3b8359d32dc725&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=6b3bc926c4df0108ce3b8359d32dc725&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=AL9R03VDd4k:hXvtaaso8BY:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=AL9R03VDd4k:hXvtaaso8BY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=AL9R03VDd4k:hXvtaaso8BY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=AL9R03VDd4k:hXvtaaso8BY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=AL9R03VDd4k:hXvtaaso8BY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=AL9R03VDd4k:hXvtaaso8BY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/AL9R03VDd4k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll be at least a decade before the Bloom Box solves our energy crisis. In the meantime, you&#8217;re gonna have to turn off your gadgets. This concept uses ambient light to gently remind you which are still sucking power. The design bears the creatively-sequenced name Saving Energy Multitap, and it&#8217;s intended as a replacement for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}