You know those jerks that walk around with little satellites coming out of their ears, feeling all superior? Well, you could be one of them! And why not be be the most superior one, with the most superior headset? More »
If you’re a headset devotee, you’ll know that they don’t always stay put on your ear. The Plantronics Voyager Pro UC packs capacitive sensors so it knows when you’re wearing it – and when to direct calls to itself. More »
For the past week or so, I’ve been kindling a passionate new relationship with a decidedly old technology: A2DP stereo Bluetooth. Sure, we’ve flirted with eachother a few times over the years, but the spark was never there. But like many relationships that begin with a booze-fuelled encounter, maybe our relationship needed a catalyst to get us going. The catalyst that seems to be working this time are the new Plantronics BackBeat 903+ earphones. More »
Plantronics are pretty good with their Bluetooth audio kit, so their new K100 Bluetooth car speaker kit is worthy of a mention. With A2DP, the speaker can stream music, phone calls, podcasts and GPS navigation directions from your smartphone. More »
We showed off video footage of the weird “wall of ears” in Plantronics’ California lab earlier this year, but the whole place is infused with an impressive kind of sci-fi vibe (and the resulting gear is very impressive). I took a tour through the facility earlier this year; here’s some of the highlights. More »
Yesterday Plantronics got us hands on with their Discovery 975 Bluetooth earpiece. It hit the US market late last year, and arrives in stores here in a couple of weeks. That’s a long wait in gadget years, and it was covered here in August, but now we’ve got local insights it still comes off as the best Bluetooth headset ever for people who think Bluetooth headsets suck the big one. Oh, and the tech is first rate, too. More »
Sometimes companies release video propaganda designed to show how fun/happy/professional they are. Others, like Plantronics, inadvertently turn us off their products for life. Though let’s be honest – it’s not like we were going to buy a Bluetooth headset anyway. More »
Do Bluetooth headset makers plant their seeds at the same time every year or something? Following the Jawbone Prime, modeled by sexy ladies, is Plantronics’ Voyager Pro, modeled by business douches.
One way to increase the potency of Bluetooth headsets as social poison is to wear them while affecting strange, inexplicable and constant head movement. With Plantronics’ new movement-charged headset design, that may become a necessity. The device relies on a small flywheel that, when rotated in a magnetic field, draws enough current to power the headset. Plantronics claims that the system would harvest enough energy to power the headset during constant use, which is actually pretty impressive.
