I wonder how this companies sales have done over the past year...I would expect they have gone up a bit.

http://www.scangauge.com

I'm going on a long car trip in June, maybe I'll pick one up. I'm not sure if I could save that much gas on a long highway trip but it might come in handy afterwards.

Like a grandfather clock.  This is brilliant, but not produced yet.

To "turn on" the lamp, the user moves weights from the bottom to the top of the lamp. An hour-glass like mechanism is turned over and the weights are placed in the mass sled near the top of the lamp. The sled begins its gently glide back down and, within a few seconds, the LEDs come on and light the lamp,

That is very cool.

The LED lightbulb should last a lifetime so you are looking at a family heirloom.  Kind of a 21st century candle. 

Go check it out.

http://standby.lbl.gov/Data/SummaryChart.html

It may not make all that much difference to you or your energy bill, but just multiply this by millions of appliances in the US and you can get a sense of the energy savings impact we could have if we fully turned off all the appliances that we could.

The FAQ explains it fairly clearly.

Anything with an external power supply (wallpack), remote control, or clock display require standby electricity.
    
Some of the most common products are TVs, VCRs, cable boxes, stereo systems, and telephone answering machines. Our Data page presents measured standby power use of these and other domestic appliances.

The message is, not everything needs stand by power, turn off what you can.