On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:44:23AM -0400, Luke S Crawford spake thusly: > The other day at the hardware store I noticed noise dampening headphones; > they looked like the enclosed ear protectors and claimed 27Dbi protection, > but they had a line in where you could plug in your MP3 player. I should > give something like that a go.
Does anyone have a lead on an inexpensive headset/mic setup good for talking on the phone in a datacenter? The standard bluetooth and even wired headsets are just not made for this kind of environment. When I'm not hacking on servers I am a commercial pilot. Aircraft tend to be very noisy so we use either closed ear headsets or in-ear headsets (my current favorite due to light weight) with a mic with squelch control. This setup works very well in the airplane. The mic is very directional and only picks up my voice and not engine/air noise. I imagine something like it connected to a cell phone would be a hot item in a noisy datacenter. Several times this week I have had to call someone's tech support from the datacenter floor and talk to them while standing behind a rack of screaming servers and fans. And the person I'm talking to almost always has an accent. Sure would be nice if we could hear each other. I know the technology exists out there somewhere. There are such things as: http://www.skygeek.com/headset-cell-phone-adapters.html but they all start at $100 (which I might actually just barely consider but no more) and they all appear to be designed to be plugged into an aircraft intercom system and will not work independently with just a phone and a headset. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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