Let’s face facts: most bluetooth headsets make their user look like an utter twat.
But that’s something we’re likely to have to overcome in the near future as murmurs of the cancer causing properties of mobile phones become more common. Yes, with the pace of technology it’s not long until having to hold a phone to your head seems so 2000s, but until someone sits down and designs a bluetooth headset that doesn’t leave you looking like a Star Trek cast member that’s unlikely to happen. Bluetooth headsets simply haven’t been fashionable.
Part ring, part bluetooth headset, the Orb may be the answer.
Part fashion accessory, part mobile phone accessory, the Orb promises to merge form and function into a device that won’t have you ostracised. Wearing it as a ring, the OLED screen will show you whose calling. After a simple twist, pop it over your ear to take the call.
Slated for release in 2010, the Orb will sell for US$129.
