Why do we have so many power supplies anyway?

Short piece in the Guardian today on the multitude of power supplies required to support a digital life

We're under attack. Our civilisation is being colonised by an alien species intent on destroying our planet and, in the meantime, our sanity.

Evidence of this invasion is almost certainly only a few feet away, at your nearest power socket. Odds-on it'll be occupied by a little black box, possibly feeding a trickle of current into some half-forgotten electronic gizmo, possibly doing nothing but gently heating the surrounding air.

Read the rest on the Guardian

I agree whole heartedly, we have too many of these black blocks heating the air, a friend commented to me when I launched this site about the benefits of USB based charging, at least I can charge my iPod from my MacBook Pro.