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axxxr
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A revolutionary new headset for mobile phones, designed to perform at a radically higher level, was demonstrated here publicly for the first time today before technology industry and business leaders attending the Wall Street Journal’s prestigious “D: All Things Digital Conference” at the Four Seasons Avaria. The new headset, called Jawbone, from Brisbane, CA – based Aliph, enables mobile users to overcome the challenges of a noisy environment: to hear and be heard more clearly.
Jawbone combines advanced technology with breakthrough product design to deliver greater performance, comfort and style for an exceptional user experience that far exceeds anything on the market today.
http://jawbone.com/press.cfm
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Mobile phones audio quality can be quite poor when the caller is surrounded by cacophony. Aliph has designed Jawbone, a headset for mobile phones that cancels echoes and surrounding noises using sensors analysing the vibration of facial bones and a microphone to distinguish between the voice of the caller and other noises.
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Six years in the making, Jawbone incorporates military-grade audio product development research which Jawbone's manufa cturer Aliph has conducted for DARPA since 2002. Designed with battlefield performance quality in mind, Jawbone's sound processing technology was developed with built-in intelligence to perfectly detect speech and to rapidly understand changes in the noise environment.
This allows crystal clear voice quality no matter what occurs in their noise environment. Additional details about Jawbone's proprietary technology will be revealed when the product is released in Q3, 2004.
Jawbone's creators include recognized industry experts in speech technology, mobile communications and consumer electronics products who hail from Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Motorola Speech Labs, Stanford University, Apple Computer and Palm. The engineering team includes the expertise that developed the voice communication standards now relied on for the GSM and CDMA networks and has more than three dozen applicable patents/patents pending. Jawbone's cutting-edge design is currently featured in a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition of the work of its award-winning industrial designer, Yves Béhar of Fuseproject.
"Aliph is redefining headsets as we've known them, changing the look, comfort and functionality completely," said mobile analyst and DEMOmobile executive producer Chris Shipley.
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First Jawbone Review:
www.gigaom.com review:
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| I freely admit it, I'm a headset-hater. I secretly snicker every time I pass some self-satisfied foolio jabbering into the goofy looking boom-mic sprouting from the side of their head. While I recognize certain situations require their services - communicating with the engine room from the bridge of the USS Enterprise, directing air traffic from a forward observation post outside Newark - I've avoided them like the plague.
That may soon change. I just got my mits on the Jawbone, a sweet little headset from Silicon Valley-based start-up, Aliph, and came away impressed. While I still have reservations about using a headset, the Jawbone represents several steps in the right (read: less dorky and useful) direction. Designed by Yves Behar, whose Fuseproject installation is currently on display at San Francisco's MOMA, the Jawbone combines a stylish silver design with a footprint less than two inches long.
But the real genius is the Jawbone's sophisticated sound processing technology which drowns out background noise while you're talking, and boosts incoming audio when you're in a noisy environment, say on a street corner. It's so effective at dampening ambient noise that DARPA is currently testing Aliph's gear to see if it there are military applications for soldiers in the field. Of course, the kind folks from Aliph couldn't say much about their work with DARPA, so we'll have to wait and see. (Can you say Future Combat System, boys and girls?)
For the unarmed, the Jawbone goes on sale for $150 this coming Wednesday, and will work with most Sony Ericsson phones, along with many of the newer Nokia and Motorola phones on sale. My biggest complaint? Lack of Bluetooth. For now, Jawbonin' with your peeps will require being wired up to your phone. |
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The JawBone headset receives the CNET Editors' Choice award, Time Magazine's coolest Inventions and Fortune Magazine Design 2004 Best Products of the Year.
Most Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson Phones are compatible.The Jawbone is available direct via their site for $149.95.
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