I love good ideas. Switch by Jack Godfrey Wood is definitely a great idea.

The ‘House-off’ Switch is a switch that allows a user to turn off all non-essential electronic items in their home from a central switch. Push the button to turn your house on when you get home; push it again to turn it off when you leave. Aiming to make the ‘green’ way the most convenient way, the ‘House-off’ Switch was part of a larger project to encourage ‘green’ action among the environmentally disinfranchised.

Whenever we leave our home for any length of time, just before we leave, my girlfriend will have a manic filp-out over whether all the electrics are turned off or not. She obsesses over the fact that a single plug left on will burn our house down whilst we’re away. So the Switch would solve that issue, as well as having an energy-saving benefit.

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