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Win an energy monitor!

We’d like lots more people to save energy, so we’re giving away ten eco-eye mini energy monitors – the handy little gadgets we’ve been using on the Low Carbon Households project, which let you see just how much electricity your home is using, in real time.

Fitting them is easy (they clip on to your power supply cable near the fusebox) and the results are guaranteed to raise eyebrows from everyone in your household.

To be in with a chance of winning, simply take a look around the energy section of the site and leave a comment on any post in that category before 12 midday on 28 October (making sure you’ve given us a valid email address – which will not be published on the site).We will then enter you into our free prize draw.

Then we’ll select the winners at random – and if you’re one of them we’ll send you your very own eco-eye mini.

That’s it. No catch [see our full terms and conditions]. Although if you’d care to let us know how you get on with your new gadget, we’d love to hear from you.

Lightning image by

Flickr user idarknight

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Originally posted 2009-10-20 23:14:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I’m not sure that there’s yet been an invasion of Nazi zombies, but should one ever happen there’s a fair chance the authorities wouldn’t want to shout about it. Or warn approaching motorists.

All the same, it’s hard not to laugh at a recent craze that has seen temporary road warning signs in the US hacked to read something other than considered safety messages about roadworks.

The messages, reported by the blog Jalopnik, range from the matter of fact (THIS SIGN HAS BEEN HACKED), through the cautionary (ZOMBIES AHEAD! and RAPTORS AHEAD, CAUTION!) to the rather heartbreaking (NOBODY HAS EVER / LOVED YOU).

Instructions for altering the signs’ messages were published in January on a website dedicated to hacking various hardware and software. In most cases, the site claims, the sign controls aren’t protected by a lock or anything other than the default password.

But while their altered messages are clearly a little irresponsible, the signs themselves are yet another example of technology making people’s lives easier. In the past, warning motorists of impending doom took a can of paint and some dedication:

IMAGES by Flickr users underbiteman and shinythings

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Originally posted 2009-02-05 18:20:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter