The Eco Button Offers Easy Greenwashed Sleep Mode
February 13, 2008 · Print This Article
Check out this piece of greenwashed crap —>
That is the Eco Button, a self-proclaimed “green” product that you plug into your computer to allow you to put your computer into sleep mode with a touch of the big ugly button.
Problem is, you already can now put your computer to sleep with a touch of a button, your mouse button. How hard is to put your comptuer to sleep? If you have a Mac you can even make one of the corners of your screen a hotspot to auto drop it into sleep, making a snoozing computer a flick of the wrist away.
How much energy and materials were burned through to make the Eco Button? How much plastic, how much paper used in packaging and logistics, how much gas burned to ship it around from factory to store? This thing is a green washed turd of a product. Two thumbs and a toe down.
Link [EcoGeek] & [BoingBoing Gadgets]
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If your are going to the trouble to trash something for the good of everyone, wouldn’t your statements be more effective if you were not so intentionally ignorant about what you are snarking? It appears your true goal is to criticize first, celebrate your 15 minutes, then, if the mood strikes, eventually become self educated about what you just trashed, silently acknowledge your error, then move on to another snarking. I’ll bet you were kicked around a lot in school weren’t you.
I will give you one hint about your first uneducated blunder:
It doesn’t put your PC into mere sleep mode. But even if it did this instantly, and did NOTHING ELSE, and saved the owner more than (4) times its purchase price annually in energy savings, that’s 4 x ROI/yr for those of you still living in your parent’s basement, what’s your next problem?
There are also many more things it does well, but I’ll leave it for you to find out these things for yourself. Once you do, then get back to me.
I admire your passion Larry. It’s not easy to feel so strongly about such a stupid crappy product as the Eco Button.
But come on, accusing me of living in my parents basement? I know you can do better than that. 3/10 on the Troll Scale.