Will you be my power plug?

John La Grou plugs smart power outlets

They hadn't invented the electric socket yet.

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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.

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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...

The man is making a telephone call.

The man is using the landline to call.

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.

Excuse me, but I don't even know what the film is called.

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

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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.

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Spare a minute, Pat?

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.

And the situation that irked me and mystified me the most was his use of a landline telephone.

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?

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I could hardly get a word in edgeways.

The master's talking. You keep quiet.

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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