Standards
The European Union has defined a Common External Power Supply for smartphones intended to replace the many incompatible proprietary power supplies and eliminate waste by reducing the total number of supplies manufactured.
Larry Page, a founder of Google, has proposed a 12 V 15 A standard for almost all equipment requiring an external converter. New buildings would also have 12V DC wiring, so that in effect the AC to DC adapter circuitry would be built into the wall.
Read more about this topic: AC Adapter
Famous quotes containing the word standards:
“As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If one doesn’t know one’s own country, one doesn’t have standards for foreign countries.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)