I don’t use many Bluetooth headsets – I rarely drive – but I found the Discover 975 to be a welcome addition to the headset pantheon. Unlike larger – or, dare I say, smaller – headsets the D975 seems just the right size for easy insertion and removal and it is unobtrusive enough to avoid the dreaded Bluetooth Douchebag Syndrome (BDS), a disease that slowly affects the human male causing them to purchase a Motorola headset with a blinking light and wear it all the damn time and cause them to, in no particular order: purchase those stickers showing a nuclear family with two parents and X kids for their Hummer, wear golf shirts, and talk loudly about how they’re getting “brews” at CostCo.


That said, the 975 is manly enough for those who occasionally need a quick Bluetooth fix and the case with built-in battery encourages storage when not in use. With the charging case you will get about 35 hours of talk time. Without it you’ll get about five.

As I said before, I won’t be testing this but I’d like to send it to a citizen reviewer. Tell me how you will avoid BDS in comments and I will send you this to write about. Sound good? Sound off!

It’s also available in “cerise,” which is a fancy way of saying pinkish-purple. That oughta be a nice color for fancy ladies. From a technical aspect, you get five hours of talk time, background noise reduction, and the ability to connect to two Bluetooth phones at once. Because, you know, fancy people have at least two phones.

Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth Earpiece [Amazon]

Well, this is awful nice of Headsets.com. If you happen to earn a ticket for talking on your cell phone while driving, the site will give you a free Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset. All you have to do is fill out a form and in the name of safety, they you the headset. The small print reads as the offer is only valid for the first 734 claims so get out there and starting breaking the law!

via GadgetReview

The Voyager 520 is a noise-canceling Bluetooth headset “featuring robust noise-canceling technology for business-quality performance”.

It’ll set you back $99.99, available in August.

For the less-mobile (but still pretty mobile), there’s the sound-isolating .Audio 480 Virtual Phone Booth headset “for laptop multimedia and Internet conversations.” It’s the smallest computer headset that Plantronics has pushed out yet.

Analog version available for $89.95, USB for $109.95 — also available in August.

I have a Gamecom Pro1 headset from Plantronics and it’s real, real nice. Good stuff outta Santa Cruz, California.

Plantronics Delivers Superior Sound and Noise-Cancellation with New Voyager Bluetooth Headset

Plantronics Launches the .Audio 480 Virtual Phone Booth Headset

I don’t usually get excited about headsets, but the Plantronics Pulsar series has produced a few strong stereo headsets and the 260 is the latest of the bunch. The headset comes with noise-isolating earbuds and a tiny little Bluetooth dongle with microphone.

The headset will sell form $109.95 and includes inline answer buttons and fast forward/rewind buttons right on the unit. It also has an audio-out adapter for stereos and speakers, so you can stream your tunage to almost anything.

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