Tweet-a-Watt Tweets Your Power Consumption Automatically [KWH Tweeting]

Are you looking for a new, niche group to belong to? Are you familiar with Twitter? Are you energy-aware? Do you have nothing more interesting to Tweet about than your home’s energy consumption? If you answered yes to all four of these questions (and I know I did) then the Tweet-a-Watt – which, incidentally, secured first place in the Greener Gadgets design contest – will certainly tick all the right boxes.

According to the official product site, here’s how the Tweet-a-Watt works:

“The modified Kill-a-Watt uses a ’super-cap’ to slowly recharge itself. Once there is enough power it turns on the Xbee wireless module, which transmits the data to a nearby computer (or Internet connected microcontroller like an Arduino). Once the power usage for the day is recorded it uses a predefined Twitter account (it can be your own) to publish your daily KWH consumption for the day. Multiple units can be used for an entire household.”

Interested? The Tweet-a-Watt starter kit will set you back $90 whilst, if you’re additionally looking to belong to the KWH Tweet Club, you’ll have to go through an initiation ceremony that involves you trying to Tweet at 10 TPM (Tweets per minute) whilst wrestling an electric eel. And that’s not easy, let me tell you.

[Tweet-a-Watt]

UPDATE: You may also be interested in Twitter Botanicalls Kit [Get Plants Tweeting You To Water Them].