Nokia developed and licensed a technology called Wibree a few years ago, and intended it to be an alternative for the current generation of Bluetooth technology. Wibree requires only a tenth of the energy consumed by its counterparts, and was developed for short distance communication between two devices, like say a Bluetooth headset and a more »

When you think of Bluetooth headsets a price of $5 would rarely, if ever come to mind. Well to be fair, based on the quality of some you may think they are worth that, but until now I have not seen one that actually retails for $5.

While the $5 costs is not for an actual production headset, but instead includes the BlueVox2 QFN chip, along with all of the components that would be needed to create a Bluetooth mono headset mounted on a four-layer printed circuit board.