I've had a flood of gadgets lately. This was a Newegg Shell shocker, and I've been meaning to get one for a while now. This little device plugs in the wall between the outlet and the device. It was pretty eye opening to see what kind of power vampires were hanging around my place. For instance, my Core i5-660 desktop was sucking down 1.0 Watt of power while it was "turned off." Crazy, my Netgear 5 port gigabit switch sucks down 6.5 Watts continuosly. Its definitely a good investment to figure out where all your power is going. My vacuum runs at 1400 Watts...yikes. My 100W equivalent CFLs run at their rated 22-23 Watts. Pretty cool stuff.
Since I had just installed a custom ROM on my Nexus One, I decided to put the new adjustability features of the camera app to work. Here's shot of the Kill A Watt with my camera phone. Goes to show that good lighting makes all the difference...and know how to operate a camera properly helps too :)
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