Posts tagged Consumption
Americans consume 3,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information per year, not counting work
Dec 11th
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The average American sucks down 34 gigabytes of data per day, half of that from videogames, says the latest update of a study by two researchers at the University of California in San Diego. That’s enough to fill 7 DVD discs. Every day.
After videogames (55%), the next highest data volume is TV (35%) [...]
ZeroFootPrint makes your wall sockets talk
Nov 10th
ZeroFootPrint, maker of the so-called TalkingPlug that sits on top of regular electrical outlets and helps companies keep better track of their energy use and carbon emissions, says it will launch the product next week.
Containing an RFID chip, a microprocessor and chip for wireless networking, the plugs will be able to drill down into how [...]





