Pop goes the plug
04 January 2012
A new solution provides a way to avoid wasting energy.
It’s common knowledge that leaving most electronic devices plugged in will cause them to draw a small amount of power even if they’re turned off.
A group of Korean designers set about tackling the issue of wasted energy and devised a spring-loaded socket that ejects the plug of an unused appliance.
Designers Seong Soyeon, Kim Seonmi, Lee Jeongjae, Park Jihye and Lee Yeontaek call their concept the PumPing Tap. An OLED indicator on the PumPing Tap turns blue to indicate that a plugged in device is in use. When it detects that a plugged in device is turned off, the OLED turns red. If the plug is still in the socket after 10 minutes, the PumPing Tap will eject the plug on its own.
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