Iqua Snake 2: Hands-Free Bluetooth Weirdness

While I’m on the subject of companies at the Sands during CES, check out this device from mobile-communications manufacturer Iqua (the company’ll be at the Sands if you’re Vegas bound). With an MSRP of $179, the Snake 2 hands-free Bluetooth headset attaches to the headrest of a car seat (almost all car makes and models according to Iqua) and lets you talk for up to eight hours on your Bluetooth-enabled device.

Speakers are located on each side of your head and the neck is flexible, so you can adjust it according to the height of the user. However, if you were to use it in a convertible as the photo suggests, I doubt you could hear a damn thing. Looks like call-answer and -end buttons are on top of the mouthpiece making them easy to acccess without taking your eyes off the road.

What would be fun is pretending no one else is in the car with you and getting the person on the other end of the call to say something completely horrible. But maybe that’s just me.

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Parrot Bluetooth photo frame

WiFi-enabled photo frames are old hat by now, and in line with technological tradition, a new kind of wireless photo frames have arrived to take their rightful place atop the hill. Parrot has unveiled its new Bluetooth photo frames that enable you to transfer photos from your Bluetooth-powered cellphone or digital camera in a flash. Each of these photo frames come with a 3.5" 262k color TFT LCD display in 320 x 234 pixels, a built-in light sensor that turns on the backlight automatically, 32MB of internal memory, and a portrait or landscape position sensor. Too bad it does not come with a memory card slot of any kind, as 100 photos don't just quite make the cut these days. There's no word on pricing details at the moment.

[source: www.ubergizmo.com]