Blackle

A recent SMH article on greener computing mentioned Blackle, an initiative from an Australian company, Heap Media.  Based on the idea that black/grey screen colouring requires less power than white or brighter colours, it gives you the Google search engine in basic, cut-down monochrome simplicity.



Wonder how much power would be saved if school computers routinely used this instead of ordinary Google (except for students/staff with vision problems, which is a fraction of the total)?



(The SMH article was called, Laying waste to yesterday's widgets).



http://www.blackle.com/



Added later: commenters have added their input to this entry re vision problems and the claims about Blackle, so do read what they have said.