Originally published July 5 2005
New wireless iPod earbuds could reduce urban theft
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
New York City police have attricuted a recent rise in robberies on subways to the visibility of iPod's trademark white earbuds, so Logitech International introduced wireless headphones that eliminate the wires between earbuds and iPods.
In any major city, it's not uncommon to find many people walking the streets or riding the subway system with the same accessories dangling from their ears: the signature white headphone wires of an iPod.
Logitech International is introducing a new product that will eliminate the wires between your ears and your iPod, but it might not necessarily be less noticeable than white wires.
The company's $150 Wireless Headphones for iPod work using Bluetooth, a short-range radio technology that lets the iPod stream music to the headphones over the air, and allows the headphones to control song playback.
Last year, Hewlett-Packard introduced its own $100 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones for its iPAQ PDA, which also plays music, and TEN Technology sells a $140 Bluetooth adapter for the iPod that enables HP's wireless headphones to work with Apple's player.
My assistant Katie Boehret and I have been testing Logitech's new wireless headphones with a $299 20-gigabyte iPod and a $199 four-gigabyte iPod Mini (any iPod with a dock connector will work) to see how they work.
The right earpiece has volume and playback controls for the iPod built onto it, positioned in a circular pattern similar to the buttons on an iPod wheel.
Two additional components come with the headphones and are necessary to use them: a Bluetooth receiver that attaches to the top of your iPod and a power adapter for charging the receiver's and headphones' internal batteries.
Logitech says one charge will last for eight hours; we got to nine hours before hitting an empty tank.
Katie wandered about 15 feet from her iPod into my office - around a corner and through two doors - without losing the sound.
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