There are lots of cars on the road from GM that feature OnStar. The service allows drivers to place hands free calls and dials 911 automatically in the event of an accident. The GPS features of the service can also provide the exact location of the car for EMS and roadside assistance.

A company called Guidepoint has announced a new hands free Bluetooth device that offers some of the same features as OnStar. The device can be coupled with an optional GPS tracker to give positional information for roadside assistance and EMS services.

The IQUA smart badge Bluetooth headset is pretty unique and pretty neat too. Corporations will probably love this as it uses a corporate ID along with a Bluetooth headset. The device offers talk time of up to 40 hours and standby time of 600 hours.

The IQUA will also give you vibration alert if you want to keep things on the quiet and can handle VoIP calls and 3-way conference calls. You’ll know if the Bluetooth connection is active thanks to some multi-colored LEDs which also indicate current call status and low battery.

Jabra is well known for its Bluetooth headsets. Now the company has released the Jabra Go 6400 and Pro 9400 Bluetooth headsets that come with a charging dock with a touchcreen display.

The 6400 features a standard Bluetooth range and looks exactly like a typical Bluetooth headset from Jabra, while the 9400 looks more like a receptionist’s headset that you can wear around your house at up to a 450-foot range.

E-LEAD Electronics has introduced its latest device. As the name implies it’s something for the laziest among us. The Lazy Pad is a combination Bluetooth keyboard and mouse seen at Computex 2009. If your own notebook or PC doesn’t have Bluetooth, don’t worry. The Lazy Pad can also be used via USB.

The built-in 500mAh li-ion battery will last up to 8 hours of continuous usage. But where’s the mouse part? The arrow buttons? Is that’s the case…Lame. So how lazy are you? Would you buy one of these?

Bluetooth has become one of the most important wireless specifications on the market. We find Bluetooth in all sorts of devices today from printers and cell phones to computer mice and more. The Bluetooth SIG has been working for a long time on the newest Bluetooth specification known as Bluetooth 3.0.

This week the Bluetooth SIG officially adapted the Bluetooth 3.0 specification officially called Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 + High Speed. The new specification boosts speeds by linking traditional Bluetooth with an 802.11 radio allowing for up to 24Mbps of data transmission.

Jabra has something new for the wireless music crowd with the announcement of its stereo Bluetooth HALO headphones. They have absolutely nothing to do with Master Chief. It will give you six hours of playback on a single charge, AVRCP support, Jabra’s Noise Blackout circuitry for improved quality when using it for calls, and micro-USB charging.

The HALO folds up for easy storage, which will also power it on and off. You may also want to check out the SP200 speakerphone, which will give you 10 hours of talk time, 23 days of standby, and active noise reduction. The HALO will arrive in May for $129.99, while the SP200 hits in April for $59.99.

Scosche just launched a new solar powered gadget in the Solchat Bluetooth Speaker Phone. It’s designed to be used in your car, and features a built in lithium ion rechargeable battery and a solar panel so you can charge it up it in your car’s windshield.

In addition to being able to be charged by the suns rays, it also can be recharged via USB or via a car adaptor. It’s available now for $99.99.

If your car isn’t new enough to have Bluetooth integration, this Steering Wheel Bluetooth Adapter may be the perfect solution. It fits around the inner part of a steering wheel with some options for size adjustment. For $63 the adapter sports a microphone and speakers for speakerphone, an LCD display for incoming callers, SD port for MP3s, USB and FM-out so you can play everything back through your car’s stereo.

There is a catch however, the adapter’s power source is your car’s cigarette lighter. You would be connecting your steering wheel to the lighter. Which could be a safety hazard. Unless it’s rechargeable. In that case don’t charge it while driving.

Although we wish it were so, we have to face reality: Your cell phone is not going to become your primary portable gaming device anytime soon. The best it can hope for is offer a decent alternative to the DS and PSP, especially with the iPhone’s capability. But what about other powerful handsets that could prove to be decent gaming platforms, but lack the proper controls?

The BGP100 Bluetooth gamepad for phones aims to fill this void, and supports a bunch of smartphone platforms including Windows Mobile, PocketPC and Symbian UIQ. It features a special twisting design and you can attach the BGP100 to a wide range of phones as long as they do not exceed 55mm in width. If it turns out that your handset is too large for the BGP100, you can also use it as a standalone gamepad when folded up.

The folks at Callpod have now officially come out with the Callpod Drone Bluetooth 2.0 adapter we had heard about much earlier this year. The adapter connects to your PC or Mac through a standard USB port and provides streaming audio for headsets or speakers without installing any software or any complicated pairing.

In fact, you can be streaming music to your wireless Bluetooth speakers and the device will automatically switch to your Bluetooth headset when a VoIP calls comes in from tools like Skype. If that’s not enough, CallPod is boasting that the Drone has a Class-1 range of 100 meters. We’re expecting to get a chance to try this out for ourselves in the near future, allowing us to take advantage of the Bluetooth headsets we already have instead of a mess of wires to take VoIP calls.

We’ve seen our share of steampunk, but never Bluetooth. Nicrosin’s Victorian-style Bluetooth device should be mass produced and powered solely by winding. He makes his creations from sculpey and watch parts, then lines it with leather for comfort. Though it still looks like it will eat your ear. The prop is fully adjustable and flexible and if you find yourself in a Steampunk alternate reality, you just might be able to use this baby to call your favorite Steampunk droid.

Sony Japan just announced their new Bluetooth headphones, the DR-BT140QP. They’re pretty nice looking and promise to make you look less dorky.

They feature Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR with support for A2DP/AVRCP/HFP/HSP profiles and have onboard Lithium Ion batteries for up to 12 hours of continuous playback with a standby time of 200 hours. They also have a mic for hands-free action. They’ll be available in four colors black, white, silver and pink for about $139.

The I-O Data Mini Keyboard might be for you if you find that you can’t type quickly with the keypad on your cell phone. It connects with your handset via Bluetooth and allows you to type away as if you were using a standard QWERTY computer keyboard.

Granted, you will look like strange typing on this, but what are you gonna do? If you do need this device, you probably have a ton of e-mails you want to deal with while on-the-go, in which case it’s an ideal solution. Or maybe you’re just addicted to SMS. No word on price just yet or availability.

It may be outdated, but most cars still have tape decks in them. And people still have a soft spot for the cassette for some reason. combine the two and you have the Flexii Bluetooth Cassette Adapter, which can be used to connect wirelessly to a mobile headset, media player, or even a PC.

Tape adapters are the way to go, since they’re easy and cheap and work pretty flawlessly. It has an internal lithium-ion battery good for about 5 hours, car charger, and a USB cable. It will cost for $46 shipped.

Here’s another in a great line of UFO shaped products. Honestly, it doesn’t take a whole to impress me. Just make the thing like a UFO, put UFO in the name and I’m good. Mulder and Scully may even visit me. This Bluetooth enabled Flying Saucer is a hands free kit for mobile phones which allows you to remotely operate your mobile with out a hassle in your car or office.

The UFO has Bluetooth 1.2 with a range of 10 meters. Echo and noise suppression technology increase the quality of calls. To make a call you can use the voice dialing features on your mobile. It’s battery powered with a built-in lithium ion battery.