Scotty, Unplug My iPad. I Need Less Power!

A power strip's worth of new outlets, designed to make you feel guilty about leaving your iPhone plugged in too long.

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Home energy monitoring made easy is one of the holy grails for product designers these days (along with, for some reason, tree houses and spoke-less bikes). If it's too complicated to design energy-efficient appliances, we might as well make it easier to see how much power they're wasting. (That's called treating the symptom.)

Still, the trend has given us some provocative...