Will you be my power plug?

John La Grou plugs smart power outlets

They hadn't invented the electric socket yet.

Any electrical device an appliance, an extension cord, whatever must be able to tell the power outlet, Hey, power outlet, I'm drawing too much current. Shut me off now, before I start a fire.

There are 10 billion electrical outlets in North America alone.

And they couldn't yank the cord out because it was screwed into a light socket inside the house.

And the power outlet needs to be smart enough to do it.

If you'll just plug this into the socket...

So there was 240 volts going through these homemade copper wires, homemade plug.

The 10 seconds actually are because we I don't know if any of you have ever thought about plugging a T.V. in when you use just a cord.

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Various kinds of plugs and sockets are in use.

And you might think that that was incredibly stupid of our ancestors to be plugging things into a light socket like this.

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An intelligent receptacle prevents injuries because the power is always off, until an intelligent plug is detected. Simple.

It's absurd. We have power outlets in every room of every building. We have running water.

You never have to worry about plugging these things in again.

Don't you know there's a war on, jack?

So we considered all of this. And we realized that electrical appliances must be able to communicate directly with the power receptacle itself.

The battery has been inserted.

First of all, this got installed upside down. This light socket and so the cord keeps falling out, so I taped it in.

And as I said before, they hadn't invented the electric outlet either, so the washing machine was a particularly dangerous device.

I plug in again the power to it.

Put that plug back in there!

And he was thinking, With all the electricity that's out there in the walls, why couldn't some of that just come into the phone so I could get some sleep?

The power adaptor has been plugged in

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In all cases offices have to be rewired, new fuse boxes installed and additional wall sockets installed to support the electrical equipment according to Italian standards.

Rooms in leading hotels may have 110 volt outlets.

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Did you know that if you plug a pickle into an electrical outlet, it glows and makes buzzing noises?

Today I'm going to show you an electric vehicle that weighs less than a bicycle, that you can carry with you anywhere, that you can charge off a normal wall outlet in 15 minutes, and you can run it for 1,000 kilometers on about a dollar of electricity.

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Provision is made to cover the cost of electrical supplies required for the repair and maintenance of all electrical installations at UNIKOM facilities, including reticulations system, consumer outlets, security lighting, area lighting, control system and protection systems.

Okay, two more points. Every year in the USA, roughly 2,500 children are admitted to emergency rooms for shock and burn injuries related to electrical receptacles. And this is crazy.

And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.

And this picture frame has a cord going out the back, and you plug it into the wall.

It's really unsatisfactory having plug in art.

They would each room typically had a light bulb socket at the top.

The light socket in the bathroom or the carbon monoxide in the garage ?

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The man is making a telephone call.

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