Goodbye standby! Here is the appliance that turns off appliances

Comes from Spain 100% off, the appliance that turns off the red lights of household appliances.

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News for those who, after an afternoon of zapping, are so tired that they cannot make the last effort and turn off the TV “closely”. News for those who, in the middle of the night, use red appliance lights at home, to create a map and easily move your sleepy steps from bed to fridge and vice versa. In short, lazy people from all over the world, from now on you will have to learn to at least grope if you want this planet to be saved from an unrivaled waste of energy!

Offending object: just the standby mode of household appliances. It is estimated that, due to the quasi 4 billion household appliances left in this mode in European homes, there is a energy expenditure equal to 7 billion euros a year, equivalent to 20 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere.

To settle, four months ago the European Commission has issued legislation defining the limits for i consumption of electronic devices in off or standby mode.

Meanwhile, the Spaniards came forward. In fact, awaiting the entry into force of the European regulation, a team of Iberian brains from CITCEA-UPC (Center for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) has developed the “100%Off”, a device already launched for sales by the company, also Spanish, Good for You, Good for the Planet.

After the Fujitsu 0Watt PCs that we have already discussed, the solution against all the "vampires" (as the infamous stand-by lights are defined) in our home arrives. The "100% Off", which consists of an 8-bit microprocessor, is able to control the energy consumption of each appliance, both in operation and in stand by, providing, in the latter case, to automatically turn off the appliance . According to Miquel Teixidó, researcher from CITCEA-UPC, the benefits of this new gadget will be seen both inside and outside the home, thanks to a reduction in energy consumption that is expected to be between 10 and 20 percent. Not to mention CO2 emissions, which will see a 1 percent drop.

In short, better than nothing, especially if you consider that the device can also act as a protection in case of overvoltage, thus also contributing to increase the life cycle of the appliances. We'll see.