The tech industry makes 3.2 billion external power supplies each year, and nearly all end up in a box in your closet, in a landfill, or in a scrap heap.
<A HREF="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007334.html">Green Plug has developed a design kit</A> allowing consumer electronics makers to provide universal power connectors for their power-sucking gadgets. If adopted by the consumer electronics industry you would buy a single Green Plug-enabled home charger from a tech firm for all of your portable electronics.