Engineer Connects House To Twitter To Monitor Resource Usage

In what could be seen as an innovative way to assume eco-friendly lifestyle, a 43-year old computer engineer has wired up his house to the microblogging website Twitter to keep track of his household's water and electricity consumption. Andy Stanford-Clark has fitted a network of sensors in every room of his thatched cottage on the Isle of Wight, Hants which sends info on activities in different rooms to his mobile handset via the microblogging website. The network of...