Power Aware Cord

The Power Aware Cord is designed to visualise the energy of the current use of electricity of the appliances connected with it through glowing pulses, flow, and intensity of light.

In everyday life we are surrounded by energy at all times. The TV set might be using electricity all night long without us noticing. The mobile phone charger is an energy thief that is easy to forget.

The Power Aware Cord may be used as a ‘tool’ for people to rediscover energy in their homes as well as an ambient ‘display’ to see energy consumption at a glance at any given time. For instance, the effects of changing the volume on stereo equipment becomes immediately and dramatically apparent – as do appliances that are silently stealing electricity while on standby. The Power Aware Cord is one of the prototypes from the Interactive Institute's project "Static!".