Finally, technology in service of romance

It’s a rainy Friday night after a busy workweek: the perfect time to rent some DVDs and curl up with your sweetheart for a lazy evening at home. From your comfy seat on the couch, you aim the remote, powering up the TV, DVD player, cable box and your new surround sound speakers at the same time. No, this isn’t a big-bucks home entertainment system—it’s your Smart Strip Power Strip at work, and it’s helping you save the planet.

Even off, your appliances sip electricity, which means bigger bills for you and bad news for the environment. With Smart Strip (which costs $30.95 to $41.95), you plug your principal gadget (a TV or computer) into the control outlet, then all the accessories (DVD player, video game console, speakers, printer) into the auto-switch outlets and voila! TV on, extras on—TV off, extras off. Plug anything that needs to stay on into one of the “constant hot” outlets. Now there’s no need to waste time switching everything off individually during your romantic at-home date.

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