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Alot of techies recently have been talking about wireless charging but nothing as of yet has seemed to live up to the hype. The powermat however seems to be breaking that mould. Coming this October this nifty gadget will charge all your gadgets from MP3 players to mobile phones. All you do is place your gadget onto the mat and as if by magic, they charge up.

Up to 4 gadgets can be charged at one time. No need to change chargers at your sockets for your Blackberry, Nintendo DS or iPod. This will see less clutter in your home, less wires to trip over and just one charger for all.

It might look like the new controller for the next Tony Hawk game but the Powermat will also come in a fold away travel version. The standard home office version will start at £69.99

Earlier this year phone manufacturers announced to bring in a universal phone charger in a bid to improve the mobile industries environmental outputs. Today an agreement was signed at European Parliament to see it happen. Many of the phone companies responsible for giving us a million different chargers agreed to sign up for it but now the deal has gone through the European Commission, it can finally go ahead.

However it’s not actually law, but completely voluntary. How good would it be though to finally be able to use everyone else’s chargers without having to carry yours with you everywhere you go. The new chargers will use mini-USB and should be arriving with our phones some time next year…..hopefully

Source : Electricpig