With energy costs rising and government taking stringent action against energy defaulters, it would make sense to be conscious about our energy consumption. The Energy Detective is a unique and efficient device, which lets you know what your electricity bill is, long before you even get it, and thus allows you to tale measures to either reduce or avoid unnecessary costs.

The TED home energy monitor quantifies electricity and the results are displayed on the LCD screen. This simple and affordable device helps homes to understand their electricity consumption and in fact works like a speedometer. They have launched the TED Footprints too, which is software that allows you to graph, chart and create load profiles of the electricity consumption on the computer.

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A Tesla coil, which is a high voltage generator, was invented by Nikola Tesla. These coils make a beautiful display of sparks and of course, a hell lot of noise. Scopeboy decided to build it himself and also use the Tesla coils in various other areas and gadgets, especially. These coils make a beautiful display of electric sparks but with 250,000 volts, it is enough to kill the inhabitants of an entire block. Scopeboy decided to build a number of things out of these Tesla Coils. He built am auto security system, and even let it play music and light up a room in the most bizarre fashion ever.

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This could come as a surprise to you but plugging in a device to the wall socket and leaving it there may still consume power, even if you have switched the device off. This means at the end of the month you are going to pay a heavy electricity bill and also waste precious energy. Hence, in order to let the lazy folks not unplug every time they are not using a device; Belkin has launched the Conserve Surge Protector. The device looks quite like an ordinary wall socket, but the difference is the wall-mountable wireless switch because it can cut the power when you are not using your device.

There also are two outlets that let your devices stay switched on, always. When you use the Conserve Surge Protector, you are saving a lot of electricity and are also doing your part in order to conserve electricity, which is quite scarce too, these days. This handy surge protector costs $49.99 and is well worth the price.

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Usually we think that switching off the gadgets means there’s no more power consumption, which is actually not. Even when electrical appliances are “turned off” they’re still consuming energy adding into your electricity bill. But to bring you out of this situation, designer Henry Huang, Jack Chang and Howard Yu have made a device called JustDrawIt.
To put it simply, it is a home timer for all your appliances telling you when the gadgets can be totally powered off without affecting your functionality. The clue to tell you that the amount oftime left with that microwave, toaster and lamp till the power goes off comes off from a row of LED lights. Though just a concept ill date, nothing can be said about its functionality till the product actually hits the market.

Via: yankodesign