Plug-in Motion Sensor Turns on Your Lights
Here’s a handy gadget that’s more home safety (or just convenience) than home security, but there’s nothing wrong with concentrating on making a home safe.
If you regularly come home to a dark house or have a room you walk into where there’s not a light switch by the door (or maybe you’re hands are just full of groceries or laundry baskets and you have a hard time fumbling for the switch), you might want to check out this motion sensing outlet plug from SmartHome. It plugs into a standard outlet, then when you walk by it, a passive infrared motion detector tells the lights in the room to flip on. The gizmo can even turn on appliances, if you’d prefer a fan or television to be fired up when you first walk in. Since the device plugs right into an outlet, there’s no need to wire anything.
The price for the motion sensor is $20: