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	Measure Your Home Energy Use With The Spark Lamp

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7d0216da-da9d-4dbe-9b4f-74803437085d/E0E9432F-962C-447E-9520-C5CD4A89B4B3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/" href="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.impactlab.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/"><H1 class="main_title"><A title="Permanent Link to Measure Your Home Energy Use With The Spark Lamp" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/" linkindex="7" set="yes">Measure Your Home Energy Use With The Spark Lamp</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/"><DIV class="date">September 7th, 2008 at 11:21 am</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.impactlab.com/img/B31689F2-5F1D-440A-851F-887330DC5C8A" alt="Measure Your Home Energy Use With The Spark Lamp" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/"><P>The Spark <A href="#" class="kLink"  id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#8a0202"><SPAN class="kLink">Lamp</SPAN></FONT></A> concept by Beverly Ng is an LED lamp that you can flip over during the day to recharge itself using solar power. It’s designed to educate the owner about their power consumption. The lamp sports integrated WiFi which wirelessly keeps track of you home’s power usage. When you turn the lamp on, it will change colors and flash to tell you what your home’s power consumption is.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/"><P niej8="0" trdan="0">It’s no accident that it looks like a houseplant as a metaphor for how plants are powered by sunlight through photosynthesis. The Spark Lamp was created in reaction to the Swedish’s government response to the energy crisis. In Sweden, future homes will have smart meters that will give real-time feedback to homeowners on the <A href="#" class="kLink"  id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="#8a0202"><SPAN class="kLink">internet</SPAN></FONT></A>. But data on a website is not all that engaging so the Spark lamp was developed to enhance the experience.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/measure-your-home-energy-use-with-the-spark-lamp/"><P niej8="0" trdan="0">Via <A href="http://www.slipperybrick.com/2008/09/spark-lamp-is-measures-your-energy-usage/" linkindex="18">SlipperyBrick</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E0E9432F-962C-447E-9520-C5CD4A89B4B3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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