Each outlet on the Pivot Power can bend or flex to help find a more convenient angle to plug something in. There is a hinge between every outlet on the strip. This allows more flexibility when choosing how to plug something in, literally. They only swivel in the side to side direction; it would have been nice to see one or two of the outlets bend in the vertical direction also. But as it is, the Pivot Power could probably help simplify the process many of us have to deal with when trying to find a free outlet.

It comes in white with six feet of cord and six flexible outlets. Six outlets is not enough for most of us, so we will have to buy a few. Just don’t give in to the temptation to daisy-chain the power strips together in a long line with one plugged in to another. It offers 672 Joules of surge protection, and is available for $29.99. Not the only power strip solution of its kind, but we like the overall design. It looks like it will match Ikea style décor. (That may or may not be a positive for you.)

The motivation behind the concept and prototype is to help people save energy. Should you leave home and forget to turn off a light or some other device attached to the powerstrip, you can do so right from your phone. The powerstrip can also be customized to allow for certain usage limits. Once those limits are reached, you can be notified by email or by tweet.

The browser and mobile app from which you control the powerstrip also lets you know the power status of what’s connected. For instance, if you can’t remember whether or not you’ve turned off a light in your house, you can easily check the online system for the on/off status.

Currently, the iRemoTap is still just in the research and development phase. But, Ubiquitous hopes to eventually be able to bring the device to market at a price point below 10,000 Yen or $122. What do you think about the concept?

[via Engadget]

The HiSaver has a motion sensor that you can place on your desk that will sense when you leave the room and after you are gone for ten minutes the thing will turn off all the gear that is plugged into the four power saving outlets. The power strip does have one outlet that always has power for your PC.

The idea is that when you leave the power strip will turn off the peripherals like your printer, speakers, and other gear. The power strip also offers surge protection to protect your electronics and one of the four power saving plugs can be switched to always on if you need another outlet that stays on all the time. The power strip isn’t cheap at $109 and you can buy it now from Tomauri.

There’s also the Conserve Smart AV, an “intelligent” multi-outlet power bar that recognizes when your TV is turned off and automatically does the same to whatever A/V equipment is plugged into its other five A/C ports (there are two more “dumb” ports for, say, DVRs you want to keep powered up).  Finally, the Conserve Socket is a simple plug that allows whatever’s plugged into it to be turned on for half an hour, three hours or six hours.

More details on each product below.  All are available now, priced at $29.99 for the Conserve Insight and Smart AV, $39.99 for the Conserve Valet, and $9.99 for the Conserve Socket.

Conserve Insight (F7C005) – $29.99

• Make better energy decisions: See how much different devices cost to use on a yearly or monthly basis
• Know your environmental impact: Shows power-plant CO2 emissions produced to use your device on a yearly or monthly basis
• Easy to read: 6 ft. cord allows you to read display at eye level or place on a table
• Customizable: Use the preloaded U.S. average electricity rate or enter your own rate off your electric bill;you can also set the CO2 emissions rate for your specific region
• Tracking feature: Tracks your actual device usage over time and projects the cost of operation

Conserve Smart AV (F7C007) – $29.99

• Simple setup: Plug your TV into the green socket and your AV peripherals into one of the five controlled outlets
• Saves energy automatically: The green socket detects the power state of your TV and automatically turns on/off DVD players, VCRs, game consoles, receivers, subwoofers, etc.
• Works with cable/satellite boxes: 2 Always-On Outlets for devices that need constant power
• Works with cable/satellite boxes: 2 Always-On Outlets for devices that need constant power
• Protects sensitive electronics: 1080 joules of surge protection ensure electronics are safe from power spikes or surges
• Saves space: Narrow footprint and wall-mounting holes make it easy to place behind furniture

Conserve Valet (F7C008) – $39.99

• Charge up to 4 mobile devices at the same time
• Frees up wall outlets: Replace up to 4 charging “bricks” with 1 clean power cord
• Saves energy by automatically turning off after devices are fully charged
• The product itself draws zero power when not in use-so you can keep your devices ready to go without wasting energy
• Designated charging spot: Always know where your mobile devices are and that they are fully charged
• Eliminates standby power: Doesn’t power until you hit the start button
• automatically turns off when you unplug all your devices
• Reduces clutter: Innovative storage area to hide messy cords
• Includes 2 cables: A USB to mini-USB cable and a USB to micro-USB cable are included

Conserve Socket (F7C009) – $9.99

• Easy to set: Choose 30 minutes, 3 hours, or 6 hours with a simple switch
• Safer home: Automatically shuts off space heaters, curling irons, etc.
• Saves energy: Completely cuts power after timer expires
• Multiple uses: Can be used with appliances and devices throughout the house

Press Release:

Save Energy with Four New Belkin Conserve Products

Energy readouts and controls help you make smarter usage decisions in the home
Detect your device’s energy waste in costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions with the Conserve Insight™ Energy Use Monitor

(Playa Vista, CA) – June 15, 2010 – To help people reduce their carbon footprint and lower their electricity bills, Belkin today announced four additions to its Conserve line of energy-saving accessories. Elegantly designed and easy to use, the Conserve Insight, Conserve Socket™, Conserve Valet™, and Conserve Smart AV™ make it easy to save energy and minimize your environmental impact.

With the size of the green marketplace estimated to reach $845 billion by 2015, energy management is emerging as an important new product category (Natural Marketing Institute). In a December 2009 survey conducted by Horizon Research and commissioned by Belkin, 81 percent of respondents indicated they would “make sure to reduce their household use of electricity that month if they noticed that their electricity bill was too high the previous month.” These are two of many findings that highlight people’s growing awareness of and desire to reduce energy consumption. Other important statistics include:

The average cost of energy wasted from home electronic entertainment devices left on but not in use is $76 per year.*
1.2 billion metric tons of CO2 is produced to generate electricity for one year of residential use in the U.S.†
100 billion kilowatt hours of electricity are consumed in the U.S. for standby power.‡
Recognizing this demand, Belkin’s new Conserve products aim to empower people to make better decisions around their energy usage. With its easy-to-read display, the Conserve Insight energy-use monitor helps you monitor your energy use by showing how much devices really cost-in watts, dollars, and carbon dioxide. Plug a device, such as a TV or microwave, into Conserve Insight to see the true impact to your wallet and the environment.

The Conserve Smart AV auto-off surge protector detects when your TV is turned on or off, and shuts down power to connected components-like video game consoles, DVD players, and home theater equipment-so that no energy is wasted when the TV is not turned on.

The Conserve Valet smart charging station is a convenient place to charge all of your mobile devices, and it also helps save energy by shutting off automatically when the devices are fully charged. (A charger left plugged into the wall can still draw power-even when no device is attached.) The Conserve Valet charges up to four devices such as cell phones, music players, and handheld video games, and it also reduces cable clutter.

The Conserve Socket power timer automatically shuts off power after a time interval you select. This helps save energy and makes a home safer by timing the power to devices such as curling irons, fans, and space heaters.

These four products join the Conserve Switch™ and the Conserve Surge, which enable energy conservation by reducing standby power in homes and offices.

As Gizmodo stated, the Multi-Tab strip, by designer Soon Mo Kang, does three things that most power strips don’t:

1. Modular construction means you can expand it at will
2. Each plug accommodates a sticker label so you know what it’s powering
3. Components can be turned on/off individually, as marked with an LED

Even though it’s not the most technically complicated or advanced power device there is, the simple, yet smart design makes it something that I’d get in a heartbeat, as it does everything that a power strip should do, and even more.

[Yanko Design via Gizmodo]

The ezGear ezSpace UFO Power Extender is the perfect way to keep all of your lights lit without A) causing a fire and B) using all of your outlets. This thing is extremely versatile, apparently. The patented design makes it so a power transformer can fit on every plug in a very compact way. The slanted angle, makes for more space saving, I guess.

With up to 1050 Joules of surge protection and six outlets this thing has you covered. The built-in switch makes turning on your lights in a snap easy. You can get the ezGear ezSpace UFO Power Extender now for $24.99.

[via Gearlog]

Newly announced is the Panamax M5400 power management and MFP-400 filtration systems designed to improve audio and video quality of home theater components. It features Level 4+ power cleaning and Linear Filtration Technology (LiFT) and offers 10 switches in five isolated outlets. If you have power hungry devices like subwoofer or amplifier, there are also two high current 15A delayed switches controlled by front power switch. Other features include 12 volt trigger, LAN port, USB charger and AVM (automatic voltage monitoring)

[via cepro]

The strip also stores records of power use, viewable by hour, day, week, month or even year, so you can see whether you’ve become eco-friendly or eco-fiendish. Anyone concerned about the quality of their power supply can also use the system to check voltage, line frequency and power factor. It’ll handle 8 to 8,000W appliances, and has eight sockets.

Of course, unless you have only eight electrically-powered devices in your home, this gadget isn’t going to tell you your whole-house performance. For that you might want to look at one of the systems that fit to your main circuit box. However they tend to be more expensive than the (still not cheap) $99.99 Computer Gear are charging, and this at least lets you target some of your profligate electronics. It’s available now.

[via The Red Ferret Journal]

The wire on the switch is 1.5 meters away, but for that “luxury” you pay 20 Euros instead of the 3-4 Euros of a normal power strip where you have to bend over to flip the same switch. It does, however, appear to also have straps built in so you can easily mount it, it appears a bit sturdier than most power strips, and it seems to have rotating receptacles so you can fill up the strip instead of wasting ports because the plug is too large, so, it could be worth it.

Belkin’s design on the other hand came with a wireless switch that also looked cool, it also had more plugs on it, and it even had a pair that weren’t shut off, so you’d have the option to leave some things running like your TiVo and SlingBox or your Router and Modem. However the Belkin option probably costs even more.

[via RedFerret]

They did actually sort of have a couple products, although I never saw them, they were two different pads that required a special attachment for the device that you wished to charge and then the device had to be set directly on the pad in order to charge. So basically it wasn’t any more convenient than saving yourself some money and plugging it in the good old fashioned way.

Honestly with Splashpower, WildCharge, eCoupled, and the countless other startups like it I saw at CES and MacWorld its really not much of a surprise that at least one of them ended poorly, I am sure there are more to fall until one of them comes up with an actually revolutionary solution that the others can copy. Until then ladies and gentleman, I’ll continue using way more power strips than is healthy in order to charge all my gadgets.

[via Engadget]

This way you don’t have to worry about buying this device and then having to spend another $100 on tips that you are likely to lose, they are all already built in. There is also space enough to hold your spare change, money, wallet, keys, etc. alongside your iPod, cell phone and Bluetooth headset as they charge.

Personally I’d love to have one of these as I’m constantly charging 2 mobile phones, a Bluetooth headset, and my iPod, and occasionally a pair of Bluetooth Headphones, and currently I use whatever fitted hat I wore that day to throw it all in, so this would definitely be a more organized method of temporary storage and charging. If you want one they will cost you $129.95 and are available from BlueLounge, FrontGate, and BlueLounge retailers this spring.

[via BlueLounge]

As an added bonus this one is made nice and small and compact for easy travel use so you aren’t sitting in your miniscule hotel room with two outlets and a laptop, cell phone, camera, iPod, Bluetooth headset, and printer that all need power for charging or for use. You get 3 regular power receptacles and 2 USB ports on the end that provides power.

I think the only thing they could do to make this product better would be to add 3 more ports to it and make on of them the host port so you could use it as a powered hub as well, I mean, it’d be perfect for Rock Band, you could plug in all your instruments and your Xbox 360 or PS3 in one plug. If you want one it will cost you $24.99 which is on par with some of the more reliable single port USB chargers of seen as of late.

[via coolest-gadgets]

All of the other outlets are controlled by a wireless power switch allowing you to eliminate the phantom power consumed by a lot of today’s gadgets that never really shut off. That means you could use this to turn off your monitor, speakers, external hard drives, computer, and printer, but leave your modem and router on for the other users that want to connect.

Or you could use it to turn off all your home theater components leaving on only your cable box and TiVo so your shows still record but the large amount of phantom power your large LCD TV steals won’t be lost anymore. The uses are nearly endless, and the best part is the switch isn’t some little keychain remote that you are likely to lose, it’s a fairly large, mountable, switch that looks fashionable and would actually be kind of hard to lose, no word on price or availability as its not out yet, but hopefully they start producing them soon.

The 8-outlet on side can rotate up to 90 degree makes it easy to manage varies sizes of AC adapters. The T12 is rated at 1875 watts with surge protection and has noise filtering system on Network, Modem, Telephone and F-connector. But priced at $120 on a power strip is not exactly affordable.

[via ecoustic]

It will, of course, clamp on to different surfaces like desks, tables, workbenches, etc. It’s 1.5” in height and since it’s small and portable you can place it wherever you need it, conveniently. It has 6 outlets and a 10ft cord and comes with a $15,000 connected equipment warranty.

It does its job without looking trashy and without taking up needed space anywhere. The $41 price isn’t too bad either.

[via GeekAlerts]

[Press release]

I honestly thought the thing was made of cardboard upon first glance. I also think that the device itself is extremely unattractive, I’d very much prefer the cords lying around to this thing. All around it’s just a mediocre design.

To make things worse the price is completely and utterly ridiculous. This truly sad power strip is being sold for $165. I’m really curious how anyone actually thought this was a good idea, I suspect alcohol was involved.

The Power Block Provides Another Way To Hide Your Tech-Heavy Lifestyle [via ohgizmo]

With only four battery-protected sockets (plus a further two which are surge-protected but not UPS linked) this isn’t going to be suitable for even the smallest of office environments, and Belkin warn only one computer system should be plugged in at a time, but come the fateful day when the power dies on you it’ll give you up to twenty minutes to finish what you’re doing and shut down safely.

Belkin include PC software that can monitor the Battery Backup and automatically shut the machine down if you’re not there to do it manually; it’s not, however, compatible with Macs.  Less platform-specific is the loud buzzer which warns you that you’re running off-grid.  Finally, the detachable flashlight magically turns on as soon as the power goes out; handy, but I have to disagree with one of Kerry’s comments in the review:

“It’s never fun to panic in the dark!”

Obviously you’ve never taken a walk through the park at night, Kerry – you bring your flashlight and I’ll bring the thermos!  The Belkin Battery Backup with Flashlight retails for a not-unreasonable $99.99.

The Belkin Battery Backup with Flashlight review [Gear Diary]

PlugKing Innovates Powerstrip [Via: CrunchGear]