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Tweet-a-Watt? Gadget Twitters Your Energy Use
EarthFirst.com —
A new gadget, revealed at the Greener Gadgets competition, has the power to embarrass you into improving your energy consumption habits. For less than fifty bucks, you can hack a Kill-a-Watt power monitor so that it automatically reports your energy use to all of your Twitter followers. It’s an interesting combination of creative gadget hacking, social networking and environmental accountability.
From Core 77, via Inhabitat:
Using “off-the-shelf hardware”, we have modified a Kill-a-Watt(TM) power ...
POWER HOG: Piggy Power Monitor Teaches Conservation
Inhabitots —
power hog piggy bank energy monitor, greener gadgets design competition, green design, sustainable design, energy efficiency, educational toy, power hog energy monitor, energy education Looking for a fun way to teach your kids about the merits of conserving electricity? Check out the cute Power Hog , a pint-size power monitor that introduces kids to energy efficiency by piggybacking upon the familiar format of the piggy bank. Simply plug the hog’s tail into an outlet and feed it a coin to meter out 30 minutes of energy for TV, video games, or other activities. ...
Greener Gadgets Highlights - Part 2
greenUPGRADER —
... Corporate Environmental Department at Panasonic. His company very much depends on the relatively high turn over of consumer electronics that Panasonic produces. He did promote Panasonic’s “dematerialization” efforts in that their new TV sets use up to 50% less material reducing their footprint on the environment. Finally we closed with the official competition as ruled by a “clap-o-meter” app on Allan Chochinov’s iPhone. Below is a clip of the Riti printer: The final winners were: 1. Tweet-A-Watt ...
Tweet-a-Watt
Do The Green Thing: Stories, videos, and more —
... when it's at home, you might ask? Elegantly described as "an open source hack with a green heart" by Inhabitat.com, it's wireless system that monitors how much electricity you're using and then updates your Twitter feed. The idea is you'll be even more motivated to save energy when you're sharing the information publically. ...
Smart grid device update
The Energy Collective —
... Finally, inhabitat reports on a neat device from the Greener Gadgets Competition — Tweet-a-Watt! Take an off-the-shelf Kill-a-Watt, hack it with some wireless technology and a receiver for it on your computer, and voila! The device to which you’ve connected the Tweet-a-Watt can report its daily electricity consumption to its Twitter account. ...
Plug In and Save
Climate Progress —
... You can also broadcast your usage to the world using Tweet-a-watt, a modified energy monitor that broadcasts your energy using Wi-Fi. It automatically uploads domestic energy use to your Twitter account, which you can then use to share or compete with friends. Now you can use the same technology to tell your friends what you’re reading on the web to brag about just how green your new OLED television is. ...
Plug In and Save
The Energy Collective —
... You can also broadcast your usage to the world using Tweet-a-watt, a modified energy monitor that broadcasts your energy using Wi-Fi. It automatically uploads domestic energy use to your Twitter account, which you can then use to share or compete with friends. Now you can use the same technology to tell your friends what you’re reading on the web to brag about just how green your new OLED television is. ...
