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Green Plug
If you're a gadget lover, or even just an average US citizen with a laptop, cellphone, MP3 player and assorted other portable devices, odds are you've got a few power strips filled with charging cables. Green Plug aims to make things simpler by creating one power adapter to rule them all.

The idea is that you'll be able to plug your phone, laptop, PDA, MP3 player, or whatever else you've got into a Green Plug base unit to charge. If the standard is adopted by electronics manufacturers, it means they don't have to send separate power bricks for each device they sell you, which saves some time, money and resources. But that's not why this power adapter is called the Green Plug (and besides, I'm pretty skeptical that we'll see widespread adoption by electronics makers anytime soon).

No, the reason this guy gets to call itself green is because it handles two way communication between your electronic devices and the base station. In other words when you gadgets are done charging, the Green Plug can cut off the power. No extra electricity gets wasted. How cool is that?

Until the Sonys and Toshibas of the world adapt the Green Plug standard, you might have a hard time finding devices that work with the charger. While it looks like a USB hub, the Green Plug uses a special cable that will need to be adopted by hardware makers.

[via SmartPlanet

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