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Add Bluetooth to your motorcycle helmet

Robin Parrish — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:06:46 +0000

Midland Radio Corporation is bringing its Bluetooth-enabled motorcycle helmet headsets to North and South America. Midland’s full line of Wireless Intercom devices provide rider-to-rider and rider-to-passenger communication with wind and weather-resistant features. You can also connect directly with Bluetooth compatible electronics like cell phones, GPS, and MP3 players.

The entire product line comes packaged with bonus accessories for each unit — two types of mounting hardware (base with screw and base with adhesive), two types of microphones (Boom and Wired mics), and stereo cables for superior HiFi stereo sound.

Image: Midland Radio Corporation.

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Add Bluetooth to your motorcycle helmet

Bluetooth Laser Projected Virtual Keyboard

Scott Wharton — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:21:19 +0000

This is perhaps one of the coolest thing that I have found on Thinkgeek.com. It’s a Bluetooth laser projected virtual keyboard that you can use with your PDA or mobile device to type. It projects a keyboard on to any flat surface using lasers. As you type it even simulates the clicking of a keyboards keys! This looks like something you would see in a futuristic (or not) movie. Something James Bond pulls out of his pocket and uses to hack the secure network of some bio-terrorist…and then it explodes when he’s finished of course.

Virtual Keyboard

About 15 or 16 years ago everything was going “Virtual” but it turned out to be a giant virtual failure in so many things. They showed all sorts of cool stuff that was supposed to be top of the line and the new cool thing, but it all turned out to be over-priced garbage. This is one of those virtual things that actual has a good, practical use!Yeah, remember those stupid, bulky roll-up keyboards that are still in rotation and sometimes the discount bins of electronic stores because nobody wants to buy them? Yeah, this is your answer. While the price is $149, this is still a great device for the nerd that wants to impress everyone by pulling it out to use it so people can gawk and ask curious questions.

Virtual Keyboard

This 3.5 in device will last 120 minutes on it’s battery with constant typing and is compatible with PalmOS 5, PocketPC 2003, Windows Smartphone, Symbian OS, and Windows 2000/XP. Limited Mac OSX Support. Do you want one yet? If so, head on over to Thinkgeek.com and get your’s!

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Bluetooth Laser Projected Virtual Keyboard

Cellphone to Watch Bluetooth Link

Jason Bean — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:21:00 +0000

What’s one of the first cool gadgets you remember seeing and then thinking to yourself, “Oh that would be so cool if it were real!”. For me it was probably the Dick Tracy communicator watch. Not sure why, the logic of it isn’t too outstanding, but at the time I saw it, it seemed so out there, but so useful, it was a perfect match.

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There’s this watch you can use that looks pretty close to Dick Tracy’s, but I’m not really looking for a watch I can talk to at this point. It’s just a couple of features I’d like to integrate into my watch from my phone that I’m interested in instead. Bluetooth seems to be the logical connection link, but I’m not picky.

What I’m interested in is a watch that connects to my cellphone via Bluetooth that will silently notify me of a phone call without my phone vibrating or ringing. Either a tiny kinetic probe on the underside that would gently poke me when I receive a call, or maybe even a slight electric shock.

Maybe I’m just sick and tired of hearing cellphone go off around me, even my own, but these days I completely silence my phone most of the day now. I just set it in front of me so I can tell when it goes off when it lights up.

Now that I think about it, it would also be nice to have a little CallerID display on the face of the watch too. Maybe the face of the watch could display the face of the caller in my address book.

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Cellphone to Watch Bluetooth Link