Digital Power Unleashed

Green Plug Exhibits at Embedded Technology 2010 and British Embassy

Sharing exhibit space with Green Plug partner, Imagination Technologies, and Toumaz, Greenplug met with many visitors to discuss our upcoming Green Power Processor and technologies aimed at bringing the next generation of power supply control to the market. The three day Embedded Technology 2010 show in Yokohama, Japan was well attended.  http://www.jasa.or.jp/et/ET2010/english/index.html

 

 

 

The following week, British Ambassador, David Warren, and Imagination Technologies CEO, Hossein Yassaie, welcomed a select group of business and technology leaders to present innovative products to the press and leading Japanese companies.  Green Plug is honored to be invited to this prestigious event.  At the event, we met with executives that showed keen interest and enthusiasm in the Green Power Process.

 

Come visit with Green Plug at CES 2011 in Las Vegas to learn more.  Happy Holidays.  http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs052/1101775948184/archive/1103998948181.html 

Actor, Green Advocate, and Green Plug Supporter Christopher Knight @ CES

Christopher Knight, aka Peter Brady, co-host of VH-1's reality Show, My Fair Brady, and host of Fox TV's game show, Trivial Pursuit, has been a longtime friend and business partner of Green Plug CEO and Founder, Frank Paniauga, Jr.

Last month, Christopher joined the Green Plug team at the famed (and very packed) Lunch@Piero's daytime press event at CES:

It's no exaggeration to say we have at least 25 wall warts to [each of] us. That's a combination of what we take portably, and that which is plugged in at home.

He went on to point out some of the devices that he owns, which require separate power supplies: speakers on a desktop, a printer, his razor, a coffee maker, his toothbrush and more -- and the fact that the Brady family (Alice included) would have had 225 wall warts in total. That's a lot of waste.

As Treehugger's Jaymi Heimbuch explains:

The main issue Green Plug is addressing is not really vampire power – it's e-waste. One of the primary drives for Green Plug's team is to cut out the incredible amount of materials and waste that occur with unnecessary chargers that are stuck in a drawer or thrown in a trash can when the device is no longer used.

Jaymi continued:

The passion of the team was apparent when I spoke with them while testing out the new Innergie product, and one of the neatest moves they're making is getting consumers involved. If you're sick of toting around wads of chargers when you travel, or having too many things plugged into a wall, you can go to IwantMyGreenPlug.com and let manufacturers know that there's a demand for this technology.

To have a firsthand look at how this works, take a look at this 3 minute video of Green Plug CEO Frank Paniagua, and Christopher Knight demonstrating Green Plug's Greentalk-enabled technology with the Innergie mCube:

*disclosure: Christopher Knight is also an investor in Green Plug

Green Plug and Innergie

If the theme of 2009 is hope, rejuvenation, and new beginnings, then Green Plug is definitely right on track.

Just prior to the new year, we announced a new partnership with Innergie - developers of the world's smallest universal power adapter - and the introduction of the first implementation of the Green Plug protocol: the Greentalk-enabled Innergie mCube90 (pictured).

Green Plug's Greentalk open system universal power interface enables any consumer electronics product to obtain power from any compliant external power adapter.

As GigaOm's earth2tech illustrates "The new adapter is green in two ways: it cuts phantom power usage because it matches each gadgets’ power needs, and because it works with a variety of consumer electronics, it allows manufacturers to skip making the bulky adapters that are sold alongside most consumer electronics.

Further at this week’s CES in Las Vegas, Green Plug showed off how to use its power adapter with a range of consumer electronics — from 5V cordless telephones to 19V flat panels — that would normally require numerous adapters and power cords to let them do their thing. A four-plug version is also in the works, which should cover the Best Buy of gadgets we roll with these days. "

The reality of a universal power adapter seemed to excite quite a few people - and we're certainly included on that list.

As always, we encourage you to let your voice be heard, and to take action by clicking to vote for universal power supplies - with all consumer electronic devices. It takes only seconds - just go to I Want My Green Plug.

Thank you!