Best Bluetooth Gear

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Bluetooth is the hot buzzword around consumer technology this year. It was everywhere at CES. You may have first heard of Bluetooth with regard to wireless headsets but it is now in a wide variety of applications. The Bluetooth SIG, the trade association for the technology, conducted a Best of CES contest among Bluetooth products in seven categories: mobile phone, headset, automotive hands-free, stereo audio, printing and imaging, PC environment, and the catch-all, unique applications. Here are the winners - put all these together and you have a wire-free lifestyle that makes communicating, listening to music and sharing files simpler and more convenient.

Winners from the show floor by category:

Winners:

Mobile Phone: Samsung SGH-D600
LOADED with Bluetooth features, even includes a stereo audio profile to enable it to work with stereo headphones and stream music over a BT link

Headset: Jabra BT500
A very nice design and great sound quality

Automotive Hands-free: Parrot 3400 LS-GPS
The latest after-market hands-free system from Parrot; the system recognizes the presence of your Bluetooth mobile phone and allows you to chat over the speaker system, hands-free

Stereo Audio: Bluetake Technology i-PHONO mini Bluetooth Stereo Headphones
A great design and sound quality, has adaptor that can plug into any music device, PC or basically anything with a headphone jack

Printing and Imaging: HP Photosmart 385
Simple to print pictures from your mobile phone

PC Environment: Logitech diNovo Media Desktop
Beautiful design, great interface for controlling music or presentations

Unique Application: Motorola Audex Protective Gear
A Snowboarding Helmet and Padded Hat with Stereo Headphones... need we say more... get your calls and listen to music wirelessly on the slopes