Best Buy among options for recycling electronic gadgets
Pueblo Chieftain
Wondering what to do with those obsolete computer monitors, scratched CDs and other electronic gear you no longer use? Pueblo's Best Buy will recycle all of that, plus printers, toner cartridges, rechargeable batteries and even spent plastic gift cards …

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'Spy Gadgets' Ruling Outlaws Cell Phones
The Moscow Times
Got a dictaphone? A cell phone with voice recording function — say, an iPhone? Or maybe a laptop that can record your Internet phone conversations? It's up to three years in jail for you, or a fine of 200000 rubles ($7000), …

Lawmakers Try Banning Cellphones, Electronic Gadgets In Schools
WTAE Pittsburgh
HARRISBURG, Pa. — For the third time, a bill has been introduced to the Pennsylvania General Assembly that would call for a ban on cellphones and most electronic gadgets on school grounds. Should cellphones and any portable electronics that can record …

Future Tech Gadgets to be Showcased at McMaster
Exchange Morning Post
HAMILTON - A wheelchair driven by head movement. Another that can follow a nurse or doctor. Touchless computing. A home energy monitoring system that finds the lowest hydro rates. A fridge management system that texts you when you need to buy more milk …

Future tech: Use your body to charge your gadgets
ConsumerReports.org (blog)
Could your body replace mobile-device batteries? Researchers have developed a way to create the power equivalent of two double-A batteries, using nothing more than motion of the human body. Anything from walking to a standing heartbeat could produce …

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New nanogenerators can theoretically keep your gadgets charged forever
DVICE
A team of scientists led by Dr. Zhong Lin Wang from the Georgia Institute of Technology are planning to present their new nanotech generator discoveries that could potentially change the way gadgets such a charged in the future. …

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Is India A Gadget Dump Yard? APPLE Certainly Feels That Way
openPR (press release)
(openPR) - It's March 2011 and there is still no sign of the official launch of the iPhone 4 in India while the whole world is playing with it and waiting for the White iPhone 4 and its next version too. Same is the case with iPad, that too came late …

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Best New Tech & Gadgets: Smartphones Vs Tablets
Product Reviews
Knowing what are the best new tech & gadgets is a very tough question, but we do know what two should be considered – smartphones and tablets. The former has been on the market longer than the latter, but these tablet PCs have now found the momentum …

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Some new kitchen gadgets you'll find handy
Sacramento Bee
You will find yourself turning to these gadgets repeatedly, even making excuses to use them. As a gift, each would be memorable. Some are the latest; some, the greatest. All are impressive. What: This tool removes the stem and cottony …

Obama's new gadget: an iPad
MarketWatch (blog)
Speaking at a town hall in Washington on Monday, Obama disclosed that he owns one of the popular Apple Inc. devices and is also tethered to his BlackBerry. “I took my BlackBerry off for this show, because I didn't want it going off, and that would be …