Extreme Eco-Friendly: The Monitors That Require No Power While in Stand-By

It seems that an increasingly higher number of manufacturers are coming out with eco-friendly products nowadays, either due to the fact that they actually care about the environment (well, not very likely, is it now?) or simply because an increasingly larger number of consumers prefer this environmentally-friendly products. And the latest example of such a product comes from Fujitsu-Siemens, who has just announced a whole new line of energy-saving PC monitors, which require absolutely no power while in stand-by mode.

Thus, according to Emil Larsen for Personal Computer World, it seems that the company's new monitors bring about a whole new design concept in this specific field. The new technology is based around a relay that cuts off the main power whenever the video stream stops. The capacitors store enough charge to flick the relay back when the signal returns. Solar panels provide enough power to maintain zero consumption mode for up to five days, after which users will have to press a regular power button to bring the machine out of standby.

According to Larsen, the company showcased two 22-inch widescreen monitors that employed this very innovative technology at a press event in Germany. The display drew 0.6-0.9W when the monitor was switched off using its standby button and with an active video signal from a VGA cable present. When the display signal was switched off the monitor drew zero power even though the standby/power button was not pressed.

Furthermore, it seems that Rajat Kakar, the vice president of peripherals at Fujitsu Siemens, has declared that the new technology is ready to go into TVs, as well as any computer monitors to be launched in the near future, which means that we might see these things hit the shelves at some point in the first half of 2008.

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