Visualizing Energy Consumption

I pull in the rss feed for information aesthetics and they often have some cool stuff. This entry has some cool examples of home…uh…items that help visualize energy consumption. For example, a radio that untunes itself when many appliances are consuming energy at the same time, or bathroom tiles that change color/pattern depending on how much hot water has hit them.

These are all ways to increase the awareness of power consumption. Industry in general has worked very hard to make power consuming devices quiet and unobtrusive. Maybe it’s time to selectively make their power consumption obtrusive, but in an elegant way of course.