Michael Matkin, Public Relations of Ricochet (excellent name for a company of this type) has just sent me an e-mail to acknowledge the new nXZEN Bluetooth headset, from Gennum.

So here it is... what's good about it:

The nXZEN can be used in the sorts of situation where most headsets have proven nearly useless: in a car with the windows down and loud traffic noise, in a crowded club or restaurant, running through an airport or in a factory. It's able to eliminate unwanted noise while retaining natural voice inflections because it has almost four times more noise reduction capability than any competitor, including Jabra and Logitech.

The unit has a tiny, integrated Digital Signal Processor that can perform 120 million instructions per second (MIPS) -- the next closest competitor, the Jabra BT800 handles 32 MIPS. The nXZEN is also the only Bluetooth headset with two microphones that allow the chips to register the time and distance between sounds and amplify the speaker's voice while eliminating background and ambient noise.

The unit is also one of the smallest and lightest on the market at only 1 inch x 3.3 inches and less than 17 grams. Yet it has 7 hours of talk time and 100 hours of stand-by. It comes in two models, the nXZEN and the nXZEN Plus, which allows users to plug the headset into an MP3 or CD player for stereo sound and have the ability to answer incoming calls with the push of a single button.

In the nXZEN site, there is an interesting section, called Heard the Difference, where you can hear audio samples and see the nXZEN headset effect, check it out.

More information about the nXZEN Plus - in silver only.

More information about the nXZEN - in black only, picture below.