Safe Plug

This is a fun piece of simple technology to save power and increase safety of electrical outlets.It uses small little slip on RFID tags on the plugs themselves and are plugged in to the “safe plug” outlets. Plugs cannot work otherwise and can potentially be remotely monitored or even controlled. These could be used to save energy, monitor individual and specific devices, prevent fires, etc. Think of all the meetinghouses that could be rescued from power siphoning and potential fire hazards. The gentleman who invented this was a featured speaker on TED.

Moving Forward

Last week we released a new Beta web site: LDS Maps.This is a web site that people use to locate LDS buildings all over the world. This will eventually (probably July) be the replacement for a tool called Meetinghouse Locator on lds.org and mormon.org.

We'd love for people (members of the Church and non-members alike) to check it out and give us your feedback! This is only a beta so you will probably see some glitches, performance problems, incorrect data or issues with the design. When you do, let us know about them!

For members of the Church, if the meeting times are wrong then please let your ward clerk know. He can change the meeting times in his system (MLS).

If you see any other problems, including incorrect locations for buildings, click on the "Feedback" button in the web page itself and let us know what you think. With your help, we'll get any incorrect information fixed quickly!

Also feel free to give feedback in the comments here.

We are integrating this technology into the next generation of our web sites so that members of the Church can easily find who lives in their ward or branch boundaries and where. We will also be working on Spanish and Portugese versions, as well as versions for mobile devices.