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Yshape, a Nashua engineering firm, aims to offer homeowners the first way to inexpensively monitor the efficiency of their oil, propane and natural gas usage — with a new $150 device the firm is looking to put into production by raising $60,000 on Kickstarter. (Read More)

Dear backers and Kickstarter browsers, We've been listening to your comments and messages over the past few weeks, and two of the most popular requests we've gotten are: what happens if my internet connection goes down, can I still get my data? what... (Read More)

This has been a cold winter in the Northeast, and if you don’t happen to live in a LEED certified smart home, you’ve probably been aware of how much it’s costing to stay warm. But at least when it comes to your furnace, you have a good excuse for not monitoring fuel usage and effiency—it’s hard to do without being really geeky (usually involving a clipboard.) In fact, unlike electricity usage for which there are a wide variety of smart meters available, monitoring oil, natural gas and propane furnaces has been a strictly DIY affair. Until now. HeatMeter is a small sensor (about the size of a box of kitchen matches) that attaches to almost any oil, gas or propane furnace with magnets and uploads data to the cloud each time the burner fires. (Read More)

Innovation makes the world go around, so why not crowdfund it? The best thinkers and ideamakers are the those that can make collective progress, so if we support their causes, projects, and ideas, we can be a part of bettering the future of our planet. (Read More)

We hit over 10% of our goal and sold out of our early-bird specials in just one day! We're very excited by your support. We've updated the FAQs and have been replying to messages and comments as fast as we get them - keep the questions coming and... (Read More)

A new KickStarter project, HeatMeter, uses a small device to track and monitor how much heating fuel (whether natural gas, propane or oil) you're using, helping to take some of the sting out of some of winter's bills. (Read More)

f every household in America improved their heating efficiency by 16 percent, it would have the same impact as taking all cars in the state of California off the road. Accomplishing this technical feat is manageable, and it doesn’t require a solar panel on every roof. (Read More)

Back in 2011, MIT discovered that the Fisker Karma's batteries only lost 10 percent of their battery life after 1,500 charges. Admittedly, the study (Read More)