Hasta La Gadget!

This week’s first power-strip comes from Woods Ind., supplier of cable-based products to, well, anyone. The six-outlet strip is rated to 1625-Watts and offers a ground-pin for each plug. This is, of course, not reason enough to get onto Gadget Lab. What the strip does have is a big foot-operated power-switch so you can stamp down under your desk and kill everything simultaneously.

Unfortunately, it sports a rather nasty “comedy” illustration of a foot on the switch itself. On the other – um – hand, it only costs $21, and has the added advantage of lacking the blinkenlights that so often blight anything with a power-plug. I’d suggest you don’t plug your actual desktop computer into this device, especially if you are one of those obsessive, foot-tapping types (actually, maybe you should hook up your delicate machine to this hair-trigger power-breaker as punishment for your annoying habit).

For the kind of junk that you should switch off, but leave powered up because you are too lazy to reach under the desk, this looks like a great solution.

Woods [Coleman Cable]

Woods Ind 6 Outlet Power Strip With Foot Switch [Amazon via Lifehacker]