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A powerful image, but one that does not represent today’s phone world

The European parliament is pushing to have phone manufacturers use a single type of charger for all mobile phones. According to some institutions, this would reduce the Euro electronic waste by 51000 tons and it would basically put an end to a rather stupid situation where consumers have to buy proprietary chargers each time they get a new handset (this doesn’t happen much these days…). It would also make it convenient to charge phones in many places including friends homes, office and possibly public spaces. (more…)

European Standard Phone Charger Law: Pro and Cons original content from Ubergizmo.

There are 6,245 restaurants on Seamless in New York City. Sometimes deciding between a roast beef sandwich and a pepperoni pizza is an impossible choice. But this is not an isolated dilemma—the question of what to watch, what to eat, and what to click is indicative of an issue that plagues the whole internet.

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You see that image above? That’s the new Steam Controller, headed to SteamOS. Sound familiar? That’s because this is the second iteration of the Steam Controller first unveiled last year. Astute readers might be thinking, “Haven’t I seen this…

I always wanted to be artist. I pictured myself in a studio, complete with half finished artwork everywhere. I can’t say I was terribly artistic, but sometimes that can be developed with practice. What I can say is practice was very expensive, paints and canvases were pretty costly, especially when you knew that whatever project you were going to turn out was unlikely to be a masterpiece.

Now, you can set your inner Picasso free, with the Nomad FLeX. Even artwork has gone high-tech and you can get the tools you need to create on a digital canvas.  The Nomad Flex paintbrush stylus is designed especially for touch screens and it features a new, highly flexible, all-synthetic brush tip, which will translate to real time strokes on your chosen digital device. Each one of the brushes is highly conductive and will glide effortlessly across almost any touchscreen device.

The Nomad Flex is the ideal accessory for the artist in you, for use with a wide variety of touch-enabled computers or tablet devices, including new Windows 8 devices, or your iPad, iPhone 5 and Microsoft’s Surface tablet. The body of the Nomad Flex is made of precision-milled aluminum and comes in your choice of five unique colors: charcoal, silver, cobalt blue, red and pink. So whether you’re really an artist, or your just a daydreaming doodler, The Nomad Flex might be for you. Get one at amazon.com for under 30 bucks.
[ The Nomad FLeX – Bringing your Art to the Digital Canvas. copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

With the NCAA Tournament approaching next week, it may be time to consider a purchase for the living room. Don’t fret if you’re not into college basketball; we’ve included something for everyone in today’s gaggle of gadgets. Jump down past the break…