Watch Your Electrical Usage
December 15th, 2006 2:02 AM | by Christen da Costa | 6 Comments
Penny pinchers rejoice! The Wattson displays your total power usage. Installation is simple and no professional needed. Just install the ’sensor’ at the home’s electricity supply and then carry the handheld wireless display wherever you go. Turn on the good old hair dryer and watch the numbers spike. The display has two modes: Wattage usage or money per year you’d spend for the appliances turned on. Lastly, the Wattson can be plugged into a computer and its information uploaded to the Internet where you can share consumption, tips and tricks.
Available at DIYKOTO and will cost you $687. If you live in the UK you can order here, but if not then you’ll have to contact them by sales@diykoto.com or 011 44 020 7729 7500.
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687.00. are you kidding me ?? an affordable device like this could do more for energy conservation than many efforts already being used. I am sure americans “waste” huge amounts of electricity in everyday life. Makes you wonder why this device is so inordinatly expensive ? ?? hmmm privately held power companies would hate it these were 50.00 each.
“We will announce a winner in about a week and a half (a few days now) right here at Gadgetreview.com.” sure?
Hey looks like a great gaget for finding my vampires. How far does the wireless reach?
hi everyone
thank you very much for the comments you have given. I would just like to clarify a few things. first of all this wattson is a handmade limited edition made out of old schoolbenches. only 250 of them are available. every order we get we start assembling wattson in our studio, so each one is unique. now we are going into manufacture now and the price will drop to around $299. I hope this makes now a bit more sense. also we do have piece of software with wattson with which you can track and analyse your behaviour in more depths and log into a online community. you will be able to start competitions, see how much you all have saved on energy together and even go to our dating site :)
if you guys have anymore questions please contact me on greta@diykyoto.com
thanks for reading this message and again thanks for you comments they are always useful for us
Greta
When you do manufacture this product, PLEASE keep the current display look and underglow. It looks really cool!
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