Looking for a new way to reduce your carbon footprint? With over 165 million home computers in the United States alone, electricity is used and abused on a much larger scale – translating to over 5 million tons of wasted C02 from idle computers.

However, the eco-button, a new green gadget for your computer, is making wasted energy from idle computers obsolete. Each time you leave your computer, you simply press the eco-button and your computer is put into ‘ecomode’ which ensures that both your computer and monitor draw only the same power as when they are shut down. Bear in mind, you are not shutting your computer down – you can press any key on your keyboard to return to where you left off.