# John La Grou plugs smart power outlets

John La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The invention, Safeplug, promises to prevent deadly accidents like house fires -- and to conserve energy.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2009
- Runtime: 4 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/JohnLaGrou_2009)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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