Various kinds of plugs and sockets are in use.

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

Will you be my power plug?

John La Grou plugs smart power outlets

They hadn't invented the electric socket yet.

There are 10 billion electrical outlets in North America alone.

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.

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

Rooms in leading hotels may have 110 volt outlets.

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

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

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.

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

Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code.

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

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

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.

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

Outer socket made by using heated high density polyethylene pipes, rather than using heated sheets.

And we put an inexpensive, wireless data reader inside the receptacle so they could communicate.

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

But I have been taking beautiful notes of drawings and I have a gorgeous onion from Murray Gell Mann's talk.

Perhaps more interesting about this little engine is it'll burn any fuel, because some of you might be skeptical about the capability of this to have an impact, where most of the world you can't simply plug into your 120 volt outlet.

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?

So we made a map of all the genes that could take transposon insertions and we called those non essential genes.

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

For security reasons, all media representatives will be required to wear both their United Nations grounds pass and national press identification at all times.

Now, to a human audience, I need to explain that if Penthouse magazine had a marine mammal edition, this would be the centerfold.

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

This invention will reduce global energy consumption by allowing remote control and automation of every outlet in every home and business.

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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.

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In fact, right now plug it from here, and then plug it in here, and now let's see if it gets my facial expressions.

John La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The invention, Safeplug, promises to prevent deadly accidents like house fires and to conserve energy.

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