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Wireless Headsets?

Posted by Cliff on from the look-ma-no-hands! dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "My girlfriend has moved off to grad school on the opposite side of the country, and we've been video conferencing over GnomeMeeting instead of using the phone (we don't have landline phones, only cell phones, so we can't use the phone before 9pm w/o burning through minutes). GnomeMeeting works well, but we are tethered to our computers by our headsets (since headsets seem necessary to prevent echoing). Are there any inexpensive wireless computer headsets with microphones out there? I saw the DIY Bluetooth headset story, but I don't feel like scrounging for parts this time... I want to by a working headset right now. I've seen $200+ headsets out there. Are there headsets out there with roughly 20 meter range for less than $100?"

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  1. so obvious... by CySurflex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cliff - you obviously posted this story in expectance of comments like this: "If you really want to make your girlfriend and yourself 'happy', you should get the new bluetooth vibrating headset and the accompanying blow-up RF lotion-motion-transporter" but instead I'll take the higher road, and I'll just say HYFHOG??? (Haven't you fucking heard of Google?)

  2. Hmmm..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Girlfriend faraway? Videoconferencing? Calls after 9 p.m.? Yeah, wireless headset, that's the first thing that comes to my mind, too.

  3. Dear Slashdot, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear Slashdot,
    Please tell me how do I use Google.

    Slashdot:
    Dear Moron,
    Here you go.