So I had a new toy arrive today, a Current Cost meter that monitors your electricity use and gives a huge amount of readings out the box. They were on special at www.ecogadgetshop.co.uk. The really cool thing about this gadget is tht it also has an RJ-45 socket on the bottom, allowing you to link the system to the internet

I am looking forward to playing with this. Apart from the obvious cost savings in energy use that I will make, it will also be the start of automating the house and outputting data into twitter. I am also hoping I can build some commands into twitter allowing me to control the house form anywhere.

So here is a quick video that I put together where I show the meter.