The new Frequency Motorola Audex Bluetooth Helmet makes rocking out while staying connected to your crew easy using a wireless mobile phone or listening a powerful soundtrack coming from your iPod directly to your Bluetooth helmet.

Together, R.E.D. and Motorola have produced wearable wireless technology that defies boundaries, pushing the on-mountain experience to the limit by giving people the they need to easy listen to music and stay connected to their Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone anywhere, anytime.

This breakthrough wireless system creates a seamless communication link with any Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone. Built-in DJ-style speakers allow you to listen to Bluetooth stereo music and pick up phone calls from your mobile without taking off you helmet or hat. A wired connection links to your iPod for the total communication and entertainment package.

Check the helmet’s features below:

• Ultra Lightweight In-Molded Polycarbonate Shell
• ClimaControl™ Ventilation System
• MC2™ Mechanical Fit and Comfort System
• SoftFIT™ Comfort Liner
• Removable Goggle Gasket
• Quick Clip™ Ear Pads
• Audex™ Ear Pad Accessory Compatible
• Zip Clip™ Ratcheting Chin Buckle
• ASTM 2040 / CE 1077 Certified

Via Newgadgets.info

Guys like Travis Rice certainly will have fun with the new Bluetooth Winter Sports Helmet. This new helmet has Bluetooth built in which allows you to connect your iPod up to it to listen to music wirelessly. It has 2 built-in speakers which fit over your ears. On the iPod (or other music source) side you attach a Bluetooth transmitter to the headphone socket and hit play, ensuring no audio wires will impede your mobility. Once all connected up you are good to go. The shell is made from an injection-molded ABS and a polycarbonat with an EPS foam liner.

The helmet costs around $300 and is available from Hammacher.com.

Via Gadgets-weblog.com.

Ride motorcycles and communicate with the world it’s never be easier. The BMW Motorrad WCS-1 System 5 helmet contains a Bluetooth headset embedded inside of the helmet. The helmet is compatible with phone headset profiles as well as the audio A2DP, compatible with upcoming Bluetooth MP3 players. Three external buttons allow you to switch the device on and control the volume.
This is a regular biker helmet, with Bluetooth support. This means that if the person in the back of the bike wants to speak to the person up front, this can easily be done without the removal of helmets. As long as the two riders are 30 feet or closer, communication should be very effective. The interior of the System 5 Helmet features two built in microphones for easy communication, while the outside has a simple 3 button layout, allowing simple navigation. It can be hooked up to any Bluetooth enabled cell phone for wireless communication while you’re flying down the highway. You can also potentially hook up the System 5 helmet to an MP3 player and listen to raging tunes as you fly down the road. The Helmet has been tested to work at speeds of over 90 MPH, so going too fast shouldn’t be a factor. Price for this entire package?? US 910.00. Go buy a new helmet.

With a Bluetooth headset, you can take your mobile conversations around the office, onto the street, and into your car without being tangled in the messy wires found on a traditional cell phone headset. And now with the Cardo Scala Rider Bluetooth headset, you can even chat wirelessly during your next motorcycle ride. The Scala Rider brings a Bluetooth headset to your motorcycle helmet and offers superior audio quality without requiring you to stop your bike to chat. The design needs important refinements to make it more user-friendly (the tiny buttons were especially troublesome), but the Scala Rider is nonetheless a satisfactory first try at a convenient and innovative cell phone solution for motorcyclists.

Though it shares part of its name with Cardo’s Scala 500 Bluetooth headset, the Cardo Scala Rider looks nothing like its sibling. In fact, it resembles no other Bluetooth headset we’ve seen before. Its most prominent feature is a compact (1.18 ounces), wedge-shaped battery pack that fastens to the outside of our helmet. To attach it, we had only to slide a strong clamp between the helmet’s inner padding and exterior shell, then secure it with the included Allen wrench. The whole process took just a few minutes, and though the fit was extremely secure, the clamp left no marks on the helmet and did not damage it in any way. The battery pack is also weather resistant for rain and snow.

Extending out from the battery pack are a speaker that wraps up to the right ear and a short boom mic that extends out toward the mouth. Both the mic and the speaker fit comfortably inside the helmet but only after we tinkered with the placement for some time. While it’s best to have the speaker as close to your ear as possible, there is such a thing as too close. After long periods, it began to rub against our ear until it was quite painful. The same was true for the microphone. If we didn’t put it close enough to our mouth, no one could hear us, but if we put it too close, it was uncomfortable as well.

The Scala Rider’s controls consist of volume rockers and a multifunction button that turns the headset on and off, manages calls, and readies it for pairing. While the controls are conveniently located on the exterior battery pack, they were much too small to be user-friendly. Finding and using the buttons while riding was very difficult and even potentially dangerous. Since we could use only one hand while trying to keep our eyes on the road, we found ourselves fumbling with the volume buttons for much too long. Additionally, thick motorcycle gloves exacerbated the problem.

We tested the Cardo Scala Rider with the Motorola V551. The pairing process took just a few seconds, and we were ready to hop on our bike in no time. Audio quality was clear and very loud. Even with loud engine and wind noise, we could hear our callers plainly. That said, finding the correct volume can be tricky. If turned up too high, the audio is nearly deafening, and it can be quite a jolt (not a good thing while riding) when you first answer a call. It’s best to start off low, then turn up the sound level to your liking. Yet considering the volume controls are so difficult to manipulate, we struggled with the overall usability. On their end, callers could hear us clearly. The Scala Rider includes a wind-resistant microphone cover that performs admirably. The headset wisely supports voice dialing, but it registers the correct voice-dial name only about half the time–not convenient when you can’t stop to dial manually. It also supports call reject and last-number redial. On the upside, battery life is solid. The Scala Rider has a rated talk time of seven hours and a promised standby time of one week. In our tests, we came away with six days of standby time.