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| Jabra BT500 Bluetooth Earpiece | | Date Created: May 27, 2006, 11:53 PM |
 OK , I've been trying out all types of earpieces since buying my Blackberry 7520. The idea of not having to take the Blackberry out of the holster to talk, most of the time, is a good idea for me. I work a lot with my hands, so I need them free. I also do not like the idea of having the phone that close to my head - In 20 years, it will be much easier to get a hip replacement than a new brain, ya know?...
I found a great "wired" headset - comfortable as hell, fits "in ear" for great sound, and the mouthpiece is way closer to my mouth than most others (important so it picks up your voice amongst background noise). The only bummer is that the cable gets hung up unless I put it under my shirt - and when I do this, it gets stuck in my shirt and tugs with the seat belt while driving...
I never really looked for a wireless headset, simply because I don't like the idea of having something like that stuck to my head. We are the test cases for this stuff right now - bluetooth, and other wireless technologies, have never been studied for "effects-over-time". We literally are the test cases for this stuff...
A perfect example is, and I know this is going to sound like a conspiracy theory (but hear me out), radio. As the number of radio stations increased over time, so did the number of cancer victims. The numbers totally jive with each other if you look at them. You don't even have to look hard, or do any chaos math, the two stats side-by-side are identical. As RF (Radio Frequencies) increased, the cancer rates increased - you can even look at modern day locations. A place with no RF will have no cancer rates, and a place with high RF will have high cancer rates. The numbers are right there for anyone to see, but no one wants to...
Anyway, no one ever bothered to do a case study for RF - and if they did, it got shoved aside due to money (radio is all about marketing, marketing is money). Thing is, RF is not just radio anymore, now you have entire cities "going wireless" with the Internet, cellphones, etc. This is all happening with no regard for anything other than the productivity of people - money. They don't care how long we live, as long as we produce a certain amount of work before dying. They know they're shortening people lives, but they are also making them more productive - so they can get more work out of you even though you have fewer working years of your life...
So having a bluetooth headset stuck in my ear just doesn't sound like a good idea to me. The technology behind bluetooth is not RF, but it still goes through your head when wearing it. We are the test cases for this stuff - actually, they're not even taking stats on this stuff, they don't care if it kills you as long as they make their money...
It's like when cell phones first came out. There were a number of people who grew cancer on the side of their face which was the same dimension, and location, as the phone they put to their ear. The families were paid off, the information was swept under the rug and the cell phone business trudged on - all about money...
It was cheaper to pay off a few families than to recall the phones and start a public panic about the cell phone industry (which, at the time, was in its infancy). If the public got wind of any of this back then, there would be no cell phone industry to speak of right now...
I had a friend give this Jambra Headset to me - I tested it, and really like it (mainly cause I don't have to worry about a cable getting caught on anything), but I really want to get it the hell away from me (and my kids)...
It's bad enough that I'm constantly surrounded by RF - the radio, wireless networks, and the nextel network - I don't want to add another "invisible plague" on top of everything else... |
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