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The DIY Kyoto Wattson, while from a company with a misleading name, is simple in theory. You connect some included doodads to your electricity meter and those doodads communicate wirelessly with the box, displaying your current usage in watts and the amount you will spend in a year at the current usage.

"I’m a big nerd, so inventive ways of doing totally uninventive things get me excited. Anyway, the staple-less stapler works by punching a hole in the paper and folding the punched part back up through another hole made in the above pages. Essentially, it weaves the top part of your paper."