Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

The same folks bringing us the ultra sensitive Bluetooth / GPS hybrid chip are also looking to improve voice quality on vanilla Bluetooth headsets, and the firm has now collaborated with Dynamic Hearing to offer up a multi-microphone configuration. Available on the company’s BlueCore-Multimedia platform, this VoiceField technology “uses two microphones to capture the speech of the headset user before it is lost amongst competing noise sources.” Additionally, it was designed to suck down very little power and sport uber-low signal latency, and also includes acoustic echo suppression, automatic handsfree volume control, and programmable equalization in 33 frequency bands.” Now, how’s about making us look a bit less freakish while donning these things on our ear?

[Via Inquirer]

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Hollywood in a shiny silver box.

Filed under: Displays

Mister Tipster just loosed two new models into their dedicated RSS ticker lineup including a low-ender. You know, just in case the original Mister Tipster’s 4 lines of black-on-green monochrome text was too, erm, swank for your needs. The $150 MT425 “Pro” and $100 MT410 “Basic” (pictured) models each measure 4.5 x 3 x 3-inches and tap into your RSS feeds over USB like the original with new access to POP3 and IMAP4 email and third-party software like Winamp. Still seems like a lot for a little.

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Filed under: Home Entertainment

Now this is Interesting. According to TrustedReviews, Euro-powerhouse Philips was showing off this dedicated media streamer at Computex last week. The brushed aluminum enclosure packs HDMI and optical audio outs for your home entertainment rig and a 40GB disk which can be expanded via USB 2.0. Unfortunately, neither the interface nor the specs were on show. Now, anyone care to guess what that stubby slot is for? Read-on for a picture of the backside.

[Via Gadget Discovery]

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Telly phone with dedicated button ships in Finland.