Favorite New Toys
Coming out of the Holidays, I've got two new favorite toys. They're new to my arsenal, but not new on the market (in both cases, I'm not exactly an early adopter). #1 is a Toyota Prius, and #2 is my new Jawbone bluetooth headset.
The first: a Toyota Prius. I bought mine to start saving on gas, as well as to start driving in the carpool lane. For California residents who don't know, if you have a Prius (or other certified hybrid or electric vehicle), and you applied for and received the special stickers before they ran out (in early '07), you can drive in the carpool lane with only one passenger. California's effort to reduce gas consumption has done two things: 1) drive up sales of the cars in CA (estimates I saw peg about 50% of US Prius sales to California buyers), and 2) drive up the price of pre-owned cars that have the stickers (mine is an '04 with about 50K miles on it, and I paid about what it costs to buy a brand new one - without the stickers). Even at a premium price, getting 45 MPG and driving in the carpool lane are worth it - and it's actually entertaining to watch the little meter that tells you how much energy is being recycled through the battery.
The second is my new Jawbone bluetooth headset from Aliph. Santa brought them for my wife and myself for Christmas. I've used a million headsets over time, and never been happy with any of them - too much background noise, and the person on the other end can always tell I'm on a headset. The Jawbone uses a set of new technologies to both enhance the sound quality and virtually eliminate background noise. Even if you don't buy one, you have to check out the demo video on the Jawbone site - a guy using a Jawbone while standing next to a leaf blower - with near-pristine sound quality.
Comments
Glad you found a headset that actually works well with Treo. I got my Jabra JX10 a while ago and it's still sitting on my table as it never worked with my 680...
Posted by: Ken He | January 19, 2008 01:26 AM
Ken - I couldn't get the Jawbone to work with my Treo 680 either. Fortunately, my 680 was dying anyhow, and I switched to the Blackberry 8830 (and it now works flawlessly). JR
Posted by: Jeff | January 26, 2008 11:35 AM