well... this seems like a waste of effort to me... when it can sense that electronics are in standby then let me know... otherwise its just like a proverbial father figure saying "you cant tell time when your sleeping" (chris rock joke in 3 2 1)

I've seen another version of this that has one master plug, which you'd plug your tv or computer into and all the rest are slaved. When the power draw drops off on the master (the equipment going into standby) the slaved plugs turn off completely. So you could turn off your TV and all the extra stuff goes off...

Wow! That's neat!

Or...

You could just buy a second power strip and plug all the stuff that needs to stay on all the time onto one, and the stuff then can be turned off when not in use on the second. Then all you have to do is flip the switch on the second one. That's what I've been doing for years.

Or have we become so fat and lazy that flipping a single switch too much effort?

To Etherimos Thats what I have on my computer. But its more of a UPS with that feature. The only things that are plugged into the two moniters are my PC, main moniter, (that thankfully only draws .3w on standby) my modem. All my other stuff, printer 2nd screen, speakers etc etc are plugged in to the slave. I might be getting another one of these for my living room. APC makes a killer one.

To Danceonsnow: Yes you could do that but in my situation at my computer a UPS is needed because the WONDERFUL work of Con-Ed (NYC electricity provider) my standard 120 volts coming in is more like 109 volts, and at some peak times 86 volts this summer. No way can you run a gaming rig on that..
As far setting that up on your entertainment center, It's not a lazy issue, for me its more I don't want to have a bundle of visible wires, nor move my entertainment center every time I want to throw the switch.

To Etherimos Thats what I have on my computer. But its more of a UPS with that feature. The only things that are plugged into the two moniters are my PC, main moniter, (that thankfully only draws .3w on standby) my modem. All my other stuff, printer 2nd screen, speakers etc etc are plugged in to the slave. I might be getting another one of these for my living room. APC makes a killer one.

To Danceonsnow: Yes you could do that but in my situation at my computer a UPS is needed because the WONDERFUL work of Con-Ed (NYC electricity provider) my standard 120 volts coming in is more like 109 volts, and at some peak times 86 volts this summer. No way can you run a gaming rig on that..
As far setting that up on your entertainment center, It's not a lazy issue, for me its more I don't want to have a bundle of visible wires, nor move my entertainment center every time I want to throw the switch.

So, if I understand this correctly, this thing uses electricity to save electricity. I'm liking the idea mentioned by dancesonsnow... that is, provided you can actually reach behind the devices you want to completely power off.

I've had a couple of these for a while ( bit.ly/11u5CY ) - the basic remote control model without the timer.

I'm not sure the timer is that useful for me, but I would love the switch to actually trigger a UPS style warning to connected devices to let them shut down properly before killing the power ... then it would work for my Media Center solution (which doesn't like just being powered off daily!)