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Google founder Larry Page is getting sick and tired of inefficient power supplies in servers eating up boatloads of his profits, so he's calling for home computers and servers to have everything running at 12 volts, eliminating the need for those energy-sucking power supplies inside PCs with their various voltages and lame wastefulness. Begged Page in a recent speech:

"I'm going to just plead with all of you, let's get the power supply problems fixed, or let's get all these devices talking together."

Google is pushing for a standard where nearly everything runs on 12-volt power. See how cool this could be, after the jump.

A great side effect of this push from the "don't be evil" Google guru would be the elimination of annoying wall warts, instead distributing power inside homes and businesses at 12 volts. That would bring plenty of power for everything but amp-sucking appliances in the kitchen and laundry room, and pave the way for lots of reasonably-priced, easier-to-install and way-cool low-voltage lighting. Another upside would be a savings of 40 billion kilowatt hours over three years, worth $5 billion. It would be safer, too. Yeah, Larry, let's don't be evil. – Charlie White

Google Pushes for PC Electrical Efficiency; Side Effect: No More Wall-Warts [treehugger]

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If you enjoyed Dr. Ashen's review of a piece of shite MP4 player, you'll definitely love what he's done with a green laser pointer. Oh yes, we're proud to announce that Dr. Ashen and Gizmodo have joined forces to provide you, dear reader, with an intercontinental review of humorous objects Ashen has lying around his house.

Enjoy! – Jason Chen

Green Laser Product Page [Think Geek]

Even More Powerful Green Laser Product Page [Think Geek]

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If you enjoyed Dr. Ashen's review of a piece of shite MP4 player, you'll definitely love what he's done with a green laser pointer. Oh yes, we're proud to announce that Dr. Ashen and Gizmodo have joined forces to provide you, dear reader, with an intercontinental review of humorous objects Ashen has lying around his house.

Enjoy! – Jason Chen

Green Laser Product Page [Think Geek]

Even More Powerful Green Laser Product Page [Think Geek]

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Bloggers don't get much sunlight in their day-to-day routine, so this plant wall is about as close we'll get to "being outside." Created by the folks at Green Fortune, the wall can be custom made to fit any space (including our bloggy sweatshop downtown) and best of all, it waters and fertilizes itself. That's the kinda brush with nature we like. – Louis Ramirez

Green Fortune Plantwall [via CNET Crave]

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While we've already posted an extensive Halloween Roundup, it has come to my attention that there is one necessary addendum: the Corpse Solar Light. The zombie is 17 inches of the most gruesome plastic you've ever seen. He holds a solar powered lantern in one hand...where is his other...maybe BEHIND YOU! Whoa. It's ok. Just relax. I didn't mean to actually scare you.

We're glad to see that even zombies are beginning to see the benefits of green technologies. $89 and you can still rush deliver for Halloween fun. Oh, and that Mike Tyson tattoo on his face is just the watermark. – Mark Wilson Thanks Michelle!

Product Page [via AmericanInventorSpot]

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While we've already posted an extensive Halloween Roundup, it has come to my attention that there is one necessary addendum: the Corpse Solar Light. The zombie is 17 inches of the most gruesome plastic you've ever seen. He holds a solar powered lantern in one hand...where is his other...maybe BEHIND YOU! Whoa. It's ok. Just relax. I didn't mean to actually scare you.

We're glad to see that even zombies are beginning to see the benefits of green technologies. $89 and you can still rush deliver for Halloween fun. Oh, and that Mike Tyson tattoo on his face is just the watermark. – Mark Wilson Thanks Michelle!

Product Page [via AmericanInventorSpot]

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Maybe if you could actually see how much energy you're using, you wouldn't leave that PC running all night. That's the idea behind the Static Energy+Design Network's Power Aware Cord, a power strip whose connecting cable glows and pulses. Its electroluminescent wires embedded inside get brighter when more power flows through, pulsing and scintillating with various patterns that are difficult to ignore.

While this appears to be just a design concept so far, it looks purty and might just remind us of what power-sucking bastards we are. We're usually trying to hide power cables, wall warts and power strips, but this eye-catching design might give us an excuse to leave that spaghetti bowl of wires right out in the open. But don't the lights in the cord suck up even more energy? Maybe not much. – Charlie White

More pics after the jump.

Power Aware Cord [Interactive Institute]

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The BMW Designworks USA-designed Ecopod E1 Home Recycling Center is a tricked-out trash compactor for greenies: Plastic bottles and aluminum cans go into separate slots and get crushed and dropped into a removable container, making them that much easier to get out of the house and back into the circle of non-biodegradable life. Each "pod" can hold about 50 crushed containers, and there's a compartment on top for glass bottles, newspapers and other recyclable junk. $348 gets you a gleaming new white one. –Matt Schneiderman

Product Page [via UberGizmo]

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