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Aspiring Spies Get New Toys

Two new headsets are really secret-agent style communicators in disguise

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 31, 2008 4:57 PM CDT

(Newser) – Two new Bluetooth headsets are meant as cellphone accessories, "the type that make white-collar executives on city streets look like the muttering deranged," but David Pogue has found a much cooler use, he writes in the New York Times. SoundID’s SM100 and... Read full story »

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