Have you ever wondered how you could streamline your business and help the environment at the same time?  Now it’s simple with a new eco-gadget. With a little help from the clever designers at DIY Kyoto, you could save yourself anywhere between 5% and 25% on your electricity bills with their products Holmes and Wattson (Watts-on).  Perfect when you are a start-up and conscious about costs.

Wattson is a wireless, fully recyclable box which measures your total electricity usage as either watts or a cost.  So much thought has gone into the design of this portable product that it even doubles up as mood lighting.  Wattson can store up to 28 days of information but the real brains were given to Holmes, a free downloadable program for both PC and Mac users.  With Holmes you can look at the patterns of your energy use over days, weeks and years, and decide where to cut corners.The more power you use – the redder Wattson becomes.  It is even capable of showing any electricity you may be producing, be it from solar panels or wind turbines, and only costs £4 a year to run. Not only is Wattson a great little gadget for the eco-minded, it even has the looks of a super model.  It comes in two versions – an acrylic finish for a budget busting £99.95 or handmade, bamboo and acrylic for those not feeling the pinch of the crunch at £350.  With looks like these you can make a feature of a gadget that also helps you save money.

Merely owning the literary duo, however, will not instantly save you cash.  They provide the information and you make the decisions - be it to turn that extra light off or stop boiling a full kettle of water.