CNN on their Sunday talk show highlighted the Smart Strip! They proclaim it as the easiest way to save energy in your home, and of course, they are on to something. So, the Smart Strip is the easiest and the best way to save energy in your home. How much more really needs to be said? We hope to have a copy that you can watch from the web site soon. In the mean time I have this piece of the transcript from the show, on April 22, 2006, taken from here on 12/31/2008. This is a discussion between the anchor, Tony Harris, and Robin Liss. In this portion of the broadcast they are discussing environmentally friendly electronics and other similar devices.

• HARRIS: How about the smart strip power strip? You have that there, right, in New York?
• LISS: Right, OK. So one of the problems with a lot of home computers is that when you turn them off, they're not actually off. It's something called idle safe power and it's a small amount of energy but when you leave a monitor plugged into the wall overnight, it really adds up. It's actually a total of 11 billion kilowatt hours in the United States are wasted on computer monitors. So what this power strip does is it plugs into your computer and it knows when you shut down your computer and it cuts off the power to your accessories and your peripherals like your printer or your monitor or your scanner and it's also going to save you money and use less energy.
• HARRIS: No, that's great. That's great.