A voice barks from a phone strapped to my chest, shaming me about the ‘Blackpool illuminations’ shining bright in my kitchen. Yet gazing above my head all I can see are a dozen bulbs simply doing their job lighting the room in the winter gloom. Mark Sait, chief executive of energy saving firm SaveMoneyCutCarbon, is not impressed as he spies on my every movement – via a hands-free selfie stick strapped to my body and connected to a video app I have downloaded on to my smartphone.
For the record, he is sitting at home 50 miles away in Bury St Edmunds. He is relentless in his chiding. ‘Those lights were already on when you walked in the kitchen – it reveals a lot about your approach to saving energy.’ Read more below….
