Save time, money and the planet

That's right, high-tech users can do their bit for the environment, all for about £15. Simon Hurst reports.

Amid the widespread concern over the future of the planet and energy consumption, attention has been focused on the amount of power wasted by leaving appliances on standby. Computer equipment is especially guilty, as some devices don't even have power switches.

There is a very simple solution - a multi-socket plug that automatically switches off other socets when the device attached to the "master" socket is turned off.

Althought the Intelliplug only has a total of three sockets, you can connect a 4- or even a 6-way adaptor to one of the sockets to turn off other devices.

So connect your computer (not if it's a laptop, though) to the master socket, and all your peripherals to the other sockets. When you turn the computer off, monitors, printers, scanners, speakers, powered USB hubs etc, etc are all turned off automatically.

When you turn the computer back on, all the devices also come back on. We tried one and it worked very well - so well, that we've ordered some more.

AccountingWEB 26-Apr-2007