We’ve all done it at one time or another.
You’re plugging away on your TPS reports and all of a sudden it’s lunch. You
duck out of the office and come back later, your PC still humming along,
guzzling hydro as though it’s quenching some insatiable thirst. It’s the law of
convenience; people tend to do what’s easiest to do. But walking away from your
PC is like leaving the fridge door open; both just aimlessly burn through
energy. Yet people tend to close the fridge door, whereas countless users leave
their computers running twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and for
some it’s just for a few hours of surfing here and there. The Ecobutton has a
solution.
ElectroStar has come up with a nifty, convenient
way to send a PC into sleep mode called the Ecobutton; a large, understandably
green button that sits on your desktop. Give it a tap and your PC goes straight
into sleep mode. Another tap and your wide awake. The device interfaces with
your USB port and it joins the cast of other, lesser USB add-ons such as the
foam missile launcher or the heated shawl.
But what difference can one person make? Is
one computer in sleep mode going to stave off climate change and save the
vicious polar bears? Is it going to rescue the adorable penguins?! No, but it
helps.
ElectroStar says that each Ecobutton will
prevent 650 pounds of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere per year.
What’s more, it’ll save you $30-$50 annually. Which is great considering the
$24.99 price tag.
One surefire way of moving the
green-movement forward is relating to users just what a difference they are
making. And so it’s an added bonus that ElectroStar packages the Ecobutton with
innovative software that tracks how much carbon you’ve kept out of the
atmosphere, how much energy you’ve saved, and how many dollars you’ve kept in
your pocket.
And their not just hopping on the bandwagon
either. The Ecobutton is made with recycled plastics and is RoHS-compliant,
making it up to par with the European standards for the reduction of hazardous
substances.
So, the Ecobutton: a great way to make going
green as easy as the push of button…(sorry, I had to)
