At CES 2010, Oregon Scientific unveiled the Wireless Appliance Manager. It is a savvy and rather sexy geekery that monitors and shows you–in real time–how much power you’re sucking from the line and how much money the line is sucking from you. Not to mention the amount of CO² you emit. Again, in real time.

The Manager comes in two versions: basic and advanced. The basic version–retailing at $60–can only receive a signal from one appliance. The advanced version–retailing at $80 plus extra transmitters–can receive signals from up to eight appliances at once. With either version, a programmable timer allows you to control sockets which turns the Manager into a control panel for your lights and appliances.

I can’t wait for the product to be available to consumers. I wasn’t able to find out a release date on the Manager, but I hope it’s sometime soon. These would make great gifts for anyone: the budget conscious, the greenie, or the curious.

[Parts of this post via Popular Mechanics]

The London metropolitan police collected nearly 3,600 tons of recyclable metals last year–guns, keys, and knives–and will be melting down a good chunk of that–58 tons, to be exact–for use in the construction of the 2012 Olympic stadium in Stratford.  In addition to the guns, keys, and knives, the police force collected and melted down 31 additional tons of bullets, casings, jewelry, and photo frames. I wonder if they’ll recycle it when they’re done…