Gear4 BluEye - bluetooth for your iPod
So you've got an iPod right? And a bluetooth enabled mobile phone?
But when you're listening to your iPod and the phone rings, you don't necessarily hear it or you have to fumble around taking your earphones out and grabbing your phone, by which time you've missed the call.
Sound familiar? I know it happens to me all the time. That's where the BluEye comes in and it may just make your life a bit easier. It looks like a pretty awesome little device.
Basically, it does what the Apple iPod remote does i.e. act as a radio receiver as well as a remote control for your iPod but it has one other key feature - it connects to your mobile phone via bluetooth.
So now when you're listening to your iPod and your phone rings, the BluEye automatically pauses the music and displays the incoming phone number on your iPod's screen. You can either accept or reject the call and it routes the caller's voice from your phone through your iPod earphones!
Your voice is picked up by an integrated mic in the BluEye device, so it will effectively act like a hands free kit. And when you finish the call, your music resumes! How cool is that?
You can even use it to make calls via voice dialling and bring up the recent callers list on your iPod screen to dial. All that as well as being a radio receiver and remote control? Pretty impressive stuff.
The full features list looks like this:
- Make and receive calls on your iPod
- Plug' n' Play with most Bluetooth enabled mobile phones
- Caller Number ID displayed on iPod screen
- Automatically pause and resume music for incoming calls
- Last 9 numbers redial from your iPod
- Voice dial when paired with supported Bluetooth phones
- 15 Presets and auto scan FM Radio
- Use your own headphones
- No need for batteries
- Bluetooth 2.0
- Available in black and white
It's already available in the UK at Carphone Warehouse and will be shipping directly from Gear4 on 3rd December. It recently also got a 90% rating in a review from The Register.
Definitely one of the cleverest and most useful gadgets I've seen in quite a while and at £49.99 not too pricey. I'll be adding it to my wish list!
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