{"id":9317,"date":"2006-11-19T20:24:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9317"},"modified":"2006-11-19T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T20:24:57","slug":"mind-your-own-damn-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9317","title":{"rendered":"Mind Your Own Damn Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/powerMider.jpg\">I&#8217;ve been seeing a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2005\/11\/treehugger_home_2.php\" target=\"new\">articles<\/a> recently on the power that is drawn from dongles, battery\/device chargers, power supplies, and the like, even when they&#8217;re not actually in use. Cumulatively, it&#8217;s not an insignificant amount. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/B000BSN1CA\/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1\/102-5086747-0346568\" target=\"new\">Mini Power Minder<\/a> (US$15) is a surge-suppressing and &#8220;smart switch&#8221; outlet designed to address such issues. Plug a power strip into the bottom socket and when you turn off your computer, a USB connection to the Mini Power Minder tells it to shut off the bottom feed (killing power to all the peripherals, chargers, and anything else that&#8217;s plugged into the connected power strip). We&#8217;ve had several pieces here on Street Tech about building your own power-switching relay, but at $15, this is a cheap out-of-box solution. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing a number of articles recently on the power that is drawn from dongles, battery\/device chargers, power supplies, and the like, even when they&#8217;re not actually in use. Cumulatively, it&#8217;s not an insignificant amount. The Mini Power Minder (US$15) is a surge-suppressing and &#8220;smart switch&#8221; outlet designed to address such issues. Plug a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mind Your Own Damn Power!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}