This clever little 60min timer should cut your electricity bill, help you keep slim and active, and protect your eyesight - all at the same time! You plug it into any normal wall electricity socket, plug in the electrical device you wish to control (up to 300W), and set the maximum ‘on’ time you require (up to 60 minutes).

Cutting the electricity bill
The Hour-at-the-Most Plug saves electricity by ensuring that any electrical device left on by mistake is switched off within 60 minutes. The greatest savings, of course, are with electric fires, which is particularly important at the end of the evening, when tiredness and a glass of wine or two can make us forgetful. I shudder to think how many times we had absent-mindedly left a fire on all night before we owned a few Hour-at-the-Most Plugs!

Actually, the saving usually starts sooner than at the end of 60 minutes. Even we usually remember to switch off fires we’ve reset within, say, the last 20 minutes!

Keeping you slim and active and protecting your eyes
Many people have an electric heater in their office space because, when they are seated for long periods, the preset central heating level for reasonably active living is not quite enough. Plugging it into an Hour-at-the-Most Plug means that you have to get up and reset it every hour. This can break your chain of thought in an irritating sort of way, but it also presents an opportunity to look after your health.

The article ‘Sitting and fattening’ (click to read) explains:

• how very low activity causes the body to lay fat from food just under the skin rather than in muscle (where it is far more easily burned off) and
• how activity, particularly leg activity, is required to keep the body depositing fat in muscle

The researchers are not yet able to set an activity guideline but it will not be much different to that set for eye health (5-10 mins. every hour).

Your sight also benefits from a break
Uninterrupted hours at a screen, reading a book or writing mean that the focal length at which your eyes are working varies little. Your eye muscles (a) get less exercise, which may reduce their ability to change focus in the long term, and (b) get used to focusing quite close up, which may lead to nearsightedness.

 

 

 

Energy saving, clockwork, wind up, money saving, saving money, - ESEBINHOURATMOST