Designers Hoang Nguyen, Anh Nguyen & Sam Staar have created the Belkin TimeOutlet that waive the annoyance of having to unplug/plug devices. It is a modular, stackable surge protector divided into 4 quadrants. Each section corresponds to a time of day.
When that time is over, power is cut from everything in that quadrant and power turns on in the next. In theory the idea is great since most of appliances do tend to operated only at certain hours of the day. Via YankoDesign