Word: bluetooth
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...There are two components, a headphone-jack adapter and a pair of headphones-white and gray, naturally. The system transmits the sound from one component to the other using Bluetooth wireless connectivity. Even some older iPods are supported, provided they have the extra hole next to the headphone jack for remote control. Once you've charged up both units, whose internal batteries last up to eight hours, you power them up and the invisible link is immediately formed...
...biggest relief was, of course, that my music-teleported through space and time-didn't suffer in quality. Still, operation can be a little tricky. Summoning the skills I use with Bluetooth earpieces for my phone, I paid close attention to how long I pressed the on/off button of headphone and adapter, as well as the color of the little indicator lights, and how often they were flashing. It's a different sort of language, but the brief manual has a translation: when you see blue lights, it's all systems go. When either component blinks red, get it back...
...biggest newfangled feature is the Bluetooth connectivity. If you have a Bluetooth-enabled phone (and they're becoming more common), you can set your phone to send calls to the Uniden. Why? So that you can leave your mobile phone in a spot near the window where it gets the best reception, yet carry on animated conversations walking all around the house with the Uniden cordless handset. The only restriction is that your mobile needs to be within about 30 feet of the cordless phone's base station, and preferably a lot closer...
...that's not the only Bluetooth angle here, either. You can also use a Bluetooth headset with the cordless phone, creating a kind of crazy Bluetooth phone to base station to cordless phone to Bluetooth headset wireless daisy chain...
...line of handhelds in 2 1/2 years ($500; palmone.com) from competing Palms and pocket PCs. The extra memory will get you far businesswise. You can archive quite a few PowerPoint presentations, for example, and a GPS street-level map of the entire U.S. Built-in wi-fi and Bluetooth wireless networking (plus infrared and USB ports) let you juggle e-mail accounts, surf the Web and transfer files...