Electronics companies weren’t thinking about saving energy when they invented standby. Fortunately there’s a general consensus on what a bad idea it was, and some electronics manufacturers are addressing the problem. But there are a lot of televisions, DVD-players and VCRs still out there haemorrhaging electricity while they’re left on standby. I make every effort to switch of my TV, DVD and video player, but there are times when something gets left on because the children forget or because I’m in a mad rush to leave the house and don’t go around checking everything. It would be a whole lot easier to be sure I’d switched it all off if I just had to press one button and all those appliances were switched off at once. And now that’s possible. Hooray! Bye Bye Standby makes it easy to switch off everything at the touch of a button. Check out this video to get the gist of how it works: