{"id":1601,"date":"2008-06-21T18:59:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2008-06-21T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T18:12:27","slug":"taiwan-smart-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan: Smart Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some nifty things I noticed in Taiwan.<br \/>\nBasically, every room has an airco unit, due to the weather patterns here. For Taipei city, you should count on some 2 or 3 million units alone. Lots of energy needed for that.<br \/>\nHowever, to compensate, I&#8217;ve noticed almost all homes voluntarily already have all their traditional glowing lamps replaced by fluorescent saving ones ones.<br \/>\nHere are some pictures of simple but effective tricks I&#8217;ve seen in all homes.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/taiwan-energy2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/taiwan-energy2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"taiwan-energy2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1599\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/taiwan-energy2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/taiwan-energy2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAll light switches have a tiny light indicator if it&#8217;s off. It means if you enter a room (which is sometimes naturally dark), you can find the switch in an instant. No more walking around like a ghost bumping your knee into the kitchen table.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/taiwan-energy1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/taiwan-energy1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"taiwan-energy1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1599\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMost power extension blocks have individually switched connectors. Really handy, just switch off the things you don&#8217;t really need in an instant.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/taiwan-energy3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/taiwan-energy3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"taiwan-energy3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1599\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere are some other saving techniques introduced. The staple-less stapler. As you can see, it&#8217;s an HP invention, and I don&#8217;t know if you can buy it or not (I got it for free from someone), but it&#8217;s really handy dandy. As you can see, it works by punching a whole and folding the newly created flaps it through the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some nifty things I noticed in Taiwan. Basically, every room has an airco unit, due to the weather patterns here. For Taipei city, you should count on some 2 or 3 million units alone. Lots of energy needed for that. However, to compensate, I&#8217;ve noticed almost all homes voluntarily already have all their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}