A useful energy gadget?

Been looking at this today: the energenie

Its a new gadget to help you automatically turn things onto standby. Now we’ve already got a Bye Bye Standby and its unused. It has a remote control that kept getting lost and one day when we couldn’t find it we just unplugged the whole thing in frustration. It was a very un-user-friendly piece of kit and was quite expensive too. So I’m a bit wary of new things. This one seems better although am not going to buy one just yet as I’m trying to steer clear of all eco-gadgets.

Firstly it has no remote control. And does not require thinking about. You plug in your appliance (TV, computer etc) and when you switch it into standby in the normal way, it then automatically turns it off after a couple of minutes. Sounds quite cunning and not too badly priced at £12.99. Still not going to buy one though.