Twitter tweaks energy usage at green awards
Social Media and Environmentalism combined as the Tweet-a-watt claimed the annual greener gadgets design competition.
The enviro-ratti assembled in New York and ensured with their rapturous reception, that the gadget registered highest on an audience clap-o-meter, scooping the £3000 prize money and donating it straight to Philnthropic organisation Engineers without Borders.
The simple device which can amazingly be built at home, encourages energy conservation by measuring and displaying a households energy usage on social networking site Twitter, fitting neatly into the theme of the competition, ‘visualising personal energy consumption’.
The Greener Gadgets design competition is judged by environmental design stalwarts, Inhabitat blog editor in chief Jill Fehrenbacher, inventor Saul Griffith and Jeff Kapec owner of Tanaka-Kapec design group and moderated by Industrial designs guru, and competition host, Core77′s Allan Chochinov.
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Georgie says:
Although it may be a good idea to encourae people to address their energy useage – do we really want to see regular updates on Twitter?
You may want to look at daveharte.com – he was planning a similar invention last time we spoke.
Mar. 8 at 11:09 pmOliver Appleby says:
Thanks for the comment and link, really useful in expanding the story(http://tiny.cc/Z4dBv), although as you say this area is now recieving a lot of coverage, still, something to look into.
I feel it all depends upon how the average joe uses twitter, if the reader converted the visible updated units to £’s and pence i’m sure it’d be more effective in encouraging more people to be more conservative with their energy use.
Mar. 9 at 12:36 amGeorgie says:
I suppose in terms of the users benefits – if he/she is constantly reminded of how much they’re spending by the hour they may be inclined to switch things off – although that may include their computer too!
But it would be interesting to see what the users is doing to make the ££ go up or down.
Mar. 16 at 1:16 pm