Eco Button – Reduce your carbon imprint with the energy saving and eco friendly gadget
- Reduce your carbon imprint
- an innovative and unique energy saving computer product
- The ecobutton illuminates as a reminder for you to press it, activating the most economical sleep mode available
- Savings in both electricity costs and carbon footprint are displayed on screen
Product Description
Reduce your carbon imprint with the energy saving and eco friendly gadget – an innovative and unique energy saving computer product.Your Personal Computer can waste a lot of energy when left idle.The ecobuttonTM illuminates as a reminder for you to press it, activating the most economical sleep mode available. When you return to your computer you will INSTANTLY continue where you left off.Savings in both electricity costs and carbon footprint are displayed on screen.Over time you will use LESS energy and REDUCE your carbon footprint
Eco Button – Reduce your carbon imprint with the energy saving and eco friendly gadget
The ecobutton is a little device which is very easy to instal. The time lag in waking up the computer to the position/ state it was when the eco-button was pressed to put the computer into an energy saving sleep mode, is a little aggravating. It obviously saves energy otherwise wasted on driving the computer, but, probably, most importantly, it makes one energy conscious in other field of live – eg not keeping the printer switched on, unplugging large data-storage hard drives when not required, not leaving the TV on standby, switching off lights, installing energy saving bulbs, only putting enough water in the kettle for what is required, etc. Within a matter of weeks the eco-button has paid for itself in energy saved. it is worth every penny. A flat back making it easy to stick on the side of the computer instead of flopping around on the desk beside the keyboard would have been of help.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a great way to save energy: when you walk away from the computer, just press the button and it instantly sends the ‘puter into standby. When you return, just wobble the mouse and the ‘puter instantly springs to life.
Mainly. Just occasionally I find it hangs instead of restarting, and takes some minutes to come back to life, which is frustrating. It happens only occasionally – but one star off.
But all in all, a great green buy.
Rating: 4 / 5
This device is one of the most rediculous money spinners I have already seen, believe it or not you’re paying £15 for a button that you almost certainly already have – All this device does is enable the ‘sleep’ mode of your computer, and if you look careful there’s a pretty good chance your keyboard already has a sleep button (if you have a laptop i’m willing to bet money you do, it’s usually accessed using the ‘fn’ key). This will do exactly the same as the ‘ecobutton’ (although granted you wont get a readout counting your savings) and it’s going to be a lot cheaper – My £3.50 value keyboard has a sleep button…
So please, before you buy this do some quick research before making this totally unneeded purchase.
Rating: 1 / 5
Don’t buy this, click Start > Control Panel > Power Options > Advanced
Under the “When I press the power button on my computer:” drop down, select “Standby”… Done!
Your power button does the job of the ecobutton. When you want to shutdown, do so via the Start Menu!
Rating: 3 / 5
It’s not all it’s cracked up to be, but serves a purpose for the sort of person who does tend to be at their desk as much as they are away from it – but then the correct setup of Windows Power Settings (in Control Panel) could have you hibernating your PC after a few minutes of inactivity without having to worry about hitting the big green button that is permanently illuminated and, as a result, using electricity.
By installing the button and necessary software, you will soon be saving the planet single-handedly – so long as you choose the default settings of £0.18 per kWh. That’s an expensive tariff and I’m not sure you can easily buy electricity at that price in the UK (it’s something like 26 cents US or 20 cents EU). The software also chooses what I believe to be a very high power consumption setting for your PC, but you can adjust this and the price per kWh for electricity.
The power consumption setting is something you will struggle to accurately set without plugging in a power meter to your PC and Display, so there’s another £15 you need to spend in order to accurately ascertain your green hero level.
That’s the problem, the software with the Ecobutton tells you what you have saved in money and CO2, but the default settings are exaggerrated for current power tariffs and efficient desktop PCs. In that regard, this button is more con than cool.
The Ecobutton: To save the planet, buy something unnecessary
Rating: 2 / 5