Helium Digital straps your wrist with HDBT-990 Bluetooth communicator
By Richard Lai 
posted January 4th 2010 3:36PM
posted January 4th 2010 3:36PM
This Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband could be a godsend for businessmen who want to avoid sticky wires and phones to answer a call while jogging, except it does look kind of bland (too hard to add a watch?). If appearance isn't what you're after, this wristband does offer audible caller ID, A2DP (although it's unclear if you can get stereo output -- we see no headphone jack here; probably just for higher mono fidelity), noise cancellation, and vibration alert for both incoming calls and when your phone is out of range -- the latter kind of mimicking the nio Bluetooth tag. Battery-wise it'll do 4 hours of talk time and 160 hours for standby. All yours for $87 starting in February.
Scott me up, Beamy!
@technognu that , sir, would be the lapel pin, you'll have go wait in that line... yes, around the block...
@Eugene Action Actually go watch the first Star Trek movie, they use wrist communicators rather than handhelds of the original series or lapel pins of tng era. silly looking plastic bracelet.
Dick Tracy to Sparkle Plenty, come in. Over.
Time to start the 2010 crapgadget list.
getting closer to something i'd buy.
seriously, where is the basic led clock? getting closer to something i'd actually buy. now if you could remove the bt speaker and use it as a ear piece.
Can't call it hands-free.
Hey is that the Engadget logo?
Hmm, and Disney just rereleased Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on ABC Kids. Slap on the MMPR logo onto this, and you'll have yourself a communicator.
Yes. Finally one good reason to be a pretend secret agent.