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...been using Bluetooth wireless headsets for about a year. Not only do I love the convenience, but I also think they make it safer to talk on the phone while driving a car. Until recently, the simplest and lightest headset I used was Motorola's HS820, but now a number of even smaller and lighter headsets are hitting the market, from Motorola, Jabra and Plantronics. The Plantronics Discovery 640 is not just a tiny, easy to use headset-it comes with a Lego lover's delight of snap-on accessories...
...quite picture your next holiday, try this: for three minutes you can experience 3-D images of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, catch a whiff of musty mummies, suck in a Red Sea breeze or spices at a local suq?all courtesy of a headset you can try on at a travel agent. "They're based on real-life smells?including mummies?and then exaggerated to become recognizable," says Jason Cremins of the U.K.-based Remote Media, which developed the technology. Beginning in January, European tour operator Thomson took the $28,000 headset around four British cities to help...
...quite picture your next holiday, try this: for three minutes you can experience 3-D images of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, catch a whiff of musty mummies, suck in a Red Sea breeze or spices at a local suq - all courtesy of a headset you can try on at a travel agent. "They're based on real-life smells - including mummies - and then exaggerated to become recognizable," says Jason Cremins of the U.K.-based Remote Media, which developed the technology. Beginning in January, European tour operator Thomson took the $28,000 headset around four British cities to help...
...Later that day, I headed over to the call center, donned a headset and listened in until 1:30 a.m. on conversations between some of the company's 525 telephone "agents" and their customers in the U.S. It was a wonderfully surreal experience. The agents-all college graduates, mostly in their early 20s-had undergone a two-week "accent neutralization" program designed by a speech pathologist whose techniques were originally developed to help stroke victims. The results were startling, with Filipinos spouting cheery Americanisms like "Alrightee," "You have a wonderful day," and "How y'all doing today?" Most spoke with...
...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...