Ken Block’s Gymkhana 3 Ford Fiesta – Click above for high-res image gallery
When Ken Block switched alliances earlier this year – ditching his Subaru Impreza WRX STI for a a rallified 2011 Ford Fiesta – there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that an all-new Gymkhana variant was right around the corner. Tonight in San Francisco, we finally got an eyeful of Block’s new ride, and as you’d suspect, it’s meaner, wider and ridiculously more powerful than its predecessor.
The Gymkhana Three Fiesta was built by the same team that produced his Monster World Rally Team hatch, and includes a boosted 2.0-liter four-pot capable of 850 horsepower (de-tuned with a restrictor plate to output 650 hp in the name of tractability) and 660 pound-feet of torque. Partnered with a Olsbergs Motorsport-developed MSE Maktrak six-speed sequential transmission and powering all four wheels, the new Gymkhana contender will hit 60 mph in two seconds flat and according to Block, can “handle loose, while still providing complete control.”
We plan to grill Block about his plans this evening, but in the meantime, make the jump for the official details and check out the teaser from earlier today.
In a surprise move, T-Mobile USA announced today that the Garminfone (aka Nuvifone A50) will be joining their family of Android phones later this spring. T-Mobile customers who have been patiently waiting for a high-end Android phone will want to pass on this device since it is targeted at mid-range. The Garminfone ships with Android 1.6 running on a 600 MHz Qualcomm processor (MSM7227) and a 3.5 inch display.
I’m guessing Garmin started working on this phone long before Google released their free Google Maps Navigation service (which works with all Android 1.6+ phones in the U.S.). I think Google’s software offers the best navigation experience and it is still in a beta release.
The timing of this release is very puzzling, considering T-Mobile also has the myTouch 3G Slide right around the corner. Both phones features similar specs, except the myTouch 3G Slide will feature the latest Android 2.1 with HTC’s Sense UI.
Our friend Michael Orly from Mobile Burn got his hands on a demo unit (back during MWC) and posted some early impressions. The software is likely to change for the T-Mobile version, but the hardware should remain the same.
T-Mobile USA Announces Upcoming Availability of Garminfone
First Android-powered Smartphone from Garmin
coming exclusively to T-Mobile later this spring
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Apr. 21, 2010 — T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming, exclusive availability of the new Garminfone™, the first Android™-powered smartphone fully-integrated with Garmin’s premium navigation experience. Anticipated to be available later this spring, Garminfone is a sleek, full-touch 3G smartphone with a large 3.5-inch screen integrated with Garmin’s robust navigation experience for fast and reliable navigation from the middle of town to the middle of nowhere — and back.
“The Garminfone brings together two increasingly popular devices in one state-of-the-art package, delivering a rich, unique experience that no other smartphone or standalone navigation device can offer,” said George Harrison, vice president, marketing product innovation, T-Mobile USA. “Busy people balancing personal and professional lives are increasingly seeking smartphones, and the deep integration of Garmin navigation into the smartphone features of this device helps them do more with one device to more simply navigate their busy lives.”
Cliff Pemble, president and COO, Garmin International said, “As the North American leader in Personal Navigation Devices, Garmin sought to partner with the leading carrier of Android smartphones, T-Mobile USA, to bring our first Android device to market. Garmin’s advanced, user-friendly navigation technology is used by millions of people every day, and the combination of Garmin’s rich navigation services on the Android platform simply makes Garminfone a must-have device for families, individuals, travelers, commuters, and professionals alike.”
Garminfone features Garmin’s industry-leading personal navigation experience integrated throughout the device including the following:
· Integrated Navigation + Smartphone Experience: Garminfone delivers navigation capabilities beyond what other smartphones and standalone navigation devices provide. Customers can navigate to an address simply by clicking on it from a text message or e-mail, contact, calendar appointment, or web page. Garminfone can even remember where you are parked and navigate you back to your car. The 3-megapixel camera with autofocus automatically geotags images so you can navigate back to where your family vacation photos were taken, e-mail geo-tagged images to friends and family members, or post geo-tagged pictures on the Web for others to enjoy. Helpful Garmin travel applications such as dynamic, real-time traffic; weather local events; movie listings; and gas prices are pre-installed and easy to access and use.
· Garmin Navigation: Driving, walking and public transportation navigation with voice and on-screen directions and automatic re-routing are deeply integrated into the smartphone features of Garminfone to simplify navigating your daily life. On-board North American maps offer fast and reliable directions — whether in or out of cell phone coverage — and multiple overlapping positioning technologies ensure Garminfone customers have one of the best location and navigation experiences a smartphone can offer. In addition, Garminfone utilizes text-to-speech technology to speak street names, and the screen automatically switches between day and night modes for easier viewing while driving.
· Garmin Voice Studio: Garminfone is the first to feature Garmin Voice Studio, an Android application, which allows customers to record and share custom voice directions from family and friends.
Garminfone also includes a convenient charging window and dashboard mount, enabling customers to easily navigate and charge the phone’s battery simultaneously.
In addition to the comprehensive navigational features, the Garminfone is built on the Android operating system offering a rich mobile Web experience with integrated Google™ mobile services including Google Search by voice, Google Maps™, YouTube® and access to Android Market, where customers can find thousands of applications to further enhance their travel experience and their daily lives. The mobile Web browser experience includes enhanced functions including pinch and zoom capability and embedded location awareness which links information found on the Web to navigation and mapping functions, allowing users to navigate directly to a location from a Web page.
The powerful mobile data experience Garminfone delivers is supported by fast data speeds via Wi-Fi and T-Mobile’s nationwide 3G network*. Garminfone also offers essential smartphone features such as easy access to personal and work e-mail, including support for Microsoft® Exchange e-mail, contacts and calendar; social networking; instant messaging; an advanced music player; and a 3-megapixel autofocus camera.
Availability:
Garminfone is expected to be available in the U.S. exclusively to T-Mobile customers later this spring. For more information, please visit http://garminfone.t-mobile.com.
It is already a common fact that companies need to reinvent themselves and to attract more segments of the market as time goes by, in order to maintain their revenues. The Sunnyvale-based company attempted to regain its popularity during the fall of 2009, with several events all over the U.S. Apparently, they have decided to resume their effort hopi… (read more)
The university has until April 26 to appeal against the decision
Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast have been ordered to hand over 40 years of research data on tree rings after a three-year battle with climate sceptics. The ruling by the Information Commissioner sets a precedent for scientists having to comply with the strictest interpretation of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.
It suggests that in future academics will not be able to avoid handing over data by claiming that the task would be too onerous or that it would breach intellectual property rights.
Douglas Keenan, an independent researcher from London, who is a well-known climate sceptic, first requested the data in 2007. Queen’s refused his request, saying that it was too expensive.
Now the commissioner has ruled that the university will be in contempt of FoI laws if it refuses to address the request.
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You may already have read the hundreds of media articles today titled “brain training doesn’t work” and similar, based on the BBC “Brain Test Britain” experiment.
Once more, claims seem to go beyond the science backing them up … except that in this case it is the researchers, not the developers, who seem responsible.
Let’s recap what we learned today.
The GoodScience
The study showed that putting together a variety of brain games in one website and asking people who happen to show up to play around for a grand total of 3-4 hours (10 minutes 3 times a week for 6 weeks) didn’t result in meaningful improvements in cognitive functioning. This is useful information for consumers to know, because in fact there are websites and companies making claims based on similar protocols. And this is precisely the reason SharpBrains exists, to help both consumers (through our book) and organizations (through our report) to make informed decisions. The paper only included people under 60, which is surprising, but, still, this is useful information to know.
A TIME article summarizes the lack of transfer well (we are going to refer to the Time article several times below, it was one of the best today):
“But the improvement had nothing to do with the interim brain-training, says study co-author Jessica Grahn of the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. Grahn says the results confirm what she and other neuroscientists have long suspected: people who practice a certain mental task — for instance, remembering a series of numbers in sequence, a popular brain-teaser used by many video games — improve dramatically on that task, but the improvement does not carry over to cognitive function in general.”
The BadScience
The study, which was not a gold standard clinical trial, contained obvious flaws both in methodology and in interpretation, as some neuroscientists have started to point out. Back to the Time article:
“Klingberg (note: Torkel Klingberg is a cognitive neuroscientist who has published multiple scientific studies on the benefits of brain training, and founded a company on the basis of that published work)…criticizes the design of the study and points to two factors that may have skewed the results.
On average the study volunteers completed 24 training sessions, each about 10 minutes long — for a total of three hours spent on different tasks over six weeks. “The amount of training was low,” says Klingberg. “Ours and others’ research suggests that 8 to 12 hours of training on one specific test is needed to get a [general improvement in cognition].”
Second, he notes that the participants were asked to complete their training by logging onto the BBC Lab UK website from home. “There was no quality control. Asking subjects to sit at home and do tests online, perhaps with the TV on or other distractions around, is likely to result in bad quality of the training and unreliable outcome measures. Noisy data often gives negative findings,” Klingberg says.”
More remarkable, a critic of brain training programs had the following to say in this Nature article:
“I really worry about this study — I think it’s flawed,” says Peter Snyder, a neurologist who studies ageing at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island.
…But he says that most commercial programs are aimed at adults well over 60 who fear that their memory and mental sharpness are slipping. “You have to compare apples to apples,” says Snyder. An older test group, he adds, would have a lower mean starting score and more variability in performance, leaving more room for training to cause meaningful improvement. “You may have more of an ability to see an effect if you’re not trying to create a supernormal effect in a healthy person,” he says.
Second, the “dosage” was small, Snyder said. The participants were asked to train for at least 10 minutes a day, three times a week for at least six weeks. That adds up to only four hours over the study period, which seemed modest to Snyder.
The UglyLogic
Let’s think by analogy. Aren’t the BBC-sponsored researchers basing their very broad claims on this type of faulty logic?
We have decided to design and manufacture our first car ever
Oops, our car doesn’t work
Therefore, cars DON’T, CAN’T and WON’T work
Therefore, ALL car manufacturers are stealing your money.
Case closed, let’s all continue riding horses. Why change?
Klingberg points out this too, stressing to TIME that the study “draws a large conclusion from a single negative finding” and that it is “incorrect to generalize from one specific training study to cognitive training in general.”
Posit Science (SharpBrains materials have been critical of Posit Science’ claims in the past, but in this case I couldn’t agree more with what they are saying), tries to debunk the debunker:
“This is a surprising study methodology,” said Dr. Henry Mahncke, VP Research at Posit Science. “It would be like concluding that there are no compounds to fight bacteria because the compound you tested was sugar and not penicillin.”
We do need serious science and analysis on the value and limitations of scalable approaches to cognitive assessment, training and retraining. There are very promising published examples of methodologies that seem to work (which the BBC study not only ignored but directly contradicted), mixed with many claims not supported by evidence. What concerns me is that this study may not only manage to confuse the public even more, but to prevent much needed innovation to ensure we are better equipped over the next 5-10 years than we are today.
Resources:
You can read the full paperHere(opens free 5-page PDF)
Spring time is here and warmer temperatures brings on BBQ season. Whether you are cooking up organic beef or tofu burgers, unique condiments complement any outdoor meal. Beaverton Foods has just introduced a gourmet, all-natural ketchup that is blended with its award-winning honey mustard.
In 1929 Rose Biggi started Beaverton Foods in the cellar of her farmhouse. To help endure the Great Depression, she began grinding her horseradish crop, bottling it, and selling it to local grocery stores. Through her hard work and perseverance, she not only survived the hard economic times, but also built the foundation for the largest specialty condiment manufacturer in the United States.
This gourmet ketchup is very affordable ($3.50) and has a unique flavor, but I wish it was made with organically-grown ingredients. Furthermore, it came shipped in a box of styrofoam peanuts rather than the compostable kind. At least the bottle is recyclable.
Disclosure: I was sent free samples of these products to review. No prior assurances were given as to whether the review be positive or negative.
We couldn’t help but notice Marc Faber’s particularly bullish stance on the yuan, as voiced on Bloomberg T.V.:
“It’s good for China to have a strong currency, but I don’t think it will be good for the property and stock markets, because in the short term, China is less competitive,”
“The yuan should be twice the current level, it should appreciate by 100 percent over the next 10 years.”
Given that the yuan seems to be almost unanimously seen as under-valued against the dollar right now, might Marc Faber be helping to fuel the world’s latest one-way bet sure thing? Does anybody think the yuan is over-valued, except maybe Andy Xie? (who seems to be more on the fence, but has warned that it could be).
Ok so I once said I would flood you little boys and girls with images and or videos from the Windows Phone 7 emulator unfortunately I took awhile to get it done due to me being busy and all that. Anyway Im here now with both images and a single video wanted to show more but the emulator crashed out on me while I was browsing on Mobiletopsoft it didnt even render our page accordingly either.The Windows Phone 7 emulator is not usable by any means it crashed on me multiple times so i
Despite stricter restrictions on mortgage lending recently enacted by the Chinese government, emerging markets perma-bull Mark Mobius thinks Chinese demand for housing will remain strong.
“We don’t see fundamentals of the property industry will change much because of these new policies,” Mobius, executive chairman at Templeton, said in response to questions sent by e- mail. “We are in general still light on Chinese developers and if this correction brings valuations to more attractive levels, it would be a good opportunity for us to step up our positions.”
“Recent policy changes on property and mortgages were introduced with the purpose of curbing speculation, but not hurting real demand,” Mobius said.
This view stands in stark contrast to Goldman’s recent view that Chinese property prices could take it on the chin as a result of new mortgage rules. Yet we’d highlight that both Goldman and Mobius are recommending/looking to buy Chinese property shares on any dips. Thus both are still long-term bullish even if they disagree on the short-term property market’s reaction.
One has to wonder what the hell is going on over at Adobe it has been years since they promise full Flash for mobile devices such as smartphones and up to this day there is nothing to show but stupid demos that only get us psyched up for nothing. Last I checked Flash 10.1 was gearing up for the 1st quarter of this year to be released on Android BlackBerry and WebOS noq news is spreading that the damn thing has been delayed.Delayed till when you may wonder No further than Q2 this ye
Plantronics announced the latest addition to their product line, the Explorer 395. Designed to be an entry level headset, the Explorer 395 is based off of Plantronics standard design for ease of use and compatibility, but still has the sound quality you’d expect.
Developing the economy of Detroit and surrounding areas is going to take some significant time. Thus, some entrepreneurs and innovators need to take the long view by engaging with the research universities, institutions and medical centers to develop people and new innovations for the future.
This would include working with leaders of these institutions to encourage public, local, state, and federal resources. It would also involve including promising leaders from these organizations in new startups and established businesses.
Since many of the major challenges of the future such as sustainable energy, food, environment, and health care at a sustainable cost are related to life sciences, this field of science should not be overlooked for investment and development. The convergence of life sciences with engineering, physical sciences, and IT is an emerging opportunity that will help generate many exciting future jobs.
[Editors note: To help launch Xconomy Detroit, we’ve queried our network of Xconomists and other innovation leaders around the country for their list of the most important things that entrepreneurs and innovators in Michigan can do to reinvigorate their regional economy.]
When I last met Ann Marie Sastry, she was shivering in the cold, leaky basement of Detroit’s Cobo Hall at January’s auto show, talking about how her company, Ann Arbor, MI-based automotive lithium-ion battery developer Sakti3, was eventually going to power the cars upstairs on the main show’s “Electric Avenue.” Now her company is closer to ascending that escalator with a new $7 million Series B round of financing.
The money comes from new investor Beringea, based in Farmington Hills, MI, and previous investor Khosla Ventures. The Beringea investment was made through the $175 million InvestMichigan Growth Capital fund, which provides expansion capital to promising Michigan businesses.
Previously, the company received $3 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in 2009 following an initial $2 million in financing from Khosla Ventures in 2008.
Sastry, the company’s CEO and a University of Michigan engineering professor, told me recently that although she likes to stay low-key about her company, this investment is exciting because it allows Sakti3 to work toward its goal of hiring 112 more people in the next few years and getting prototypes to customers by the end of this year.
Sakti3 has been a kind of poster child for state incentives. In 2008, the company received tax credits from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority worth $2.3 million over 10 years, helping to convince the company to stay in Michigan rather than move to a competing site in California.
“They’ve been amazing to us,” Sastry says, referring to the state government’s efforts to support Michigan’s nascent battery industry. “The state’s made a really substantial commitment to us. We take that really seriously. We want to scale in Michigan and the state has really stepped up.”
But, Sastry says, mostly she and her colleagues at Sakti3 keep their heads down, work on their technology and learn more about the nuts and bolts of the business, like automotive supply chain issues. Lithium-ion battery cells for the automotive space is a hot, highly competitive field now and Sastry prefers to keep the press releases at a minimum, as you can see by the company’s very minimalist Web site.
Of investors Beringea and Khosla, she says that she is thrilled that they share her philosophy about the future of vehicle electrification.
“We really believe that the way to solve a lot of these sticky societal problems is with good technology,” Sastry says.
For the many folks out there who were waiting on the version of the iPad with both 3G and Wi-Fi featured in the wait is almost over. Come April 30th 2010 these models will be available in the US at an Apple Store near you but be wary the price is not easy to handle your pocket will burn and turn to ash if you plan on getting one of these.16GB version of the 3GWi-Fi iPad will set you back around 629 USD 729 for 32GB and 829 for 64GB so right now i suggest you check your options
The topline is this, researchers presented the following at the recent meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists:
* An analysis of 614 highly variant loci, microsatellites, in ~2,000 people from diverse populations imply some variants which seem to be derived from human lineages outside of the mainline which led to the anatomically modern humans who left Africa 50-100,000 years before the present to settle the world. I assume there were “long branches” on the phylogenies of some loci, indicating that some of the alleles were “separated” from others for long periods of time so that recombination wasn’t able to dissolve the differences between distinctive haplotypes (if we’re all descended from a small African populations which expanded demographically less than 100,000 years ago the common ancestor of the variants should have a shallow time depth).
* The data imply two admixture events, one 60,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean, the other 45,000 years ago in East Asia. I think of this as a floor to the number of events. The latter one seems particularly clear in Oceanic populations from the reporting.
* African populations do not have the variants for these two admixture events (there hasn’t been that much back migration to Africa aside from north of the Sahara and the Horn of Africa. I assume that’s because Africans are well adapted to their environment, and outsiders are not).
In light of the recent discovery of a Siberian hominin which lived ~30,000 years ago, and was not a H. sapiens sapiens or H. sapiens neanderthalis, as well as the confusing but intriguing Hobbits of Flores, I think we can conclude that the the evolutionary genetic past was much more complicated than we’d assumed 10 years ago. Remember three years ago when there was a spate of research on a few genes which were suggestive of introgression into the human genome from Neandertals? There are other hints here and there which pop up in the literature over the years, some in Asia. But the methods being imperfect, and interpretation being somewhat an art, a consensus of Out-of-Africa + total replacement has been assumed to be a null. So we look at isolated results with some skepticism (I think this is justified).
So is this going to be met with skepticism due to reliance on the orthodox model? This section of the article is intriguing:
A test of the New Mexico team’s proposals may come soon. Svante Pääbo and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, announced early last year that they had finished sequencing a first draft of the Neanderthal genome, and they are expected to publish their work in the near future. Pääbo’s earlier studies on components of Neanderthal genomes largely ruled out interbreeding, but they were not based on more comprehensive analyses of the complete genome.
Linda Vigilant, an anthropologist at the Planck Institute, found Joyce’s talk a convincing answer to “subtle deviations” noticed in genetic variation in the Pacific region.
“This information is really helpful,” says Vigilant. “And it’s cool.”
Trying to glean what results Paabo is going to come out with is like reading tea leaves, but it is notable that a colleague at Max Planck seems to be excited about the results of this study. I do not get the sense that any of these results would reject the model that the overwhelming signal of ancestry in non-African humans is African. There’s a reason that mtDNA, later analysis of classical markers, and finally modern genomics (as well as cladistic analysis of skeletal features) imply that there was an Out of Africa event, whereby anatomically modern humans entered into a period of massive demographic and range expansion from a small ancestral group. But that does not preclude the assimilation of other groups along the way, and there is circumstantial evidence of sex between the Others and modern humans (the time of separation between various hominin lineages is on the low side in relation to various other taxa which can still produce fertile hybrid young).
A final point is that if these results hold up, one might look to Africa itself for other hybridization events. It may be that ancient hominin genetic variation is preserved in modern Africans as H. sapiens sapiens entered its period of expansion within that continent. Those signals may be currently obscured because the archaics in Africa were genetically more similar than those outside of Africa, and the African genome hasn’t been as well characterized as that of other populations in relation to its great diversity (remember the finding of new SNPs in the recent paper on Bushmen).
BlackBerry fans rejoice a new phone is coming your way and guess what Its a clamshell guess what again Its an ugly little thing. No offence but this new BB clamshell phone is no looker I guess the best thing about it is the fact that it runs on BlackBerry OS 6.0 many die hard BB users will see that as a plus.It is pretty difficult for me not to keep attacking this phone based on its looks its damn ugly but then again when the phone is released it might just look better than h
In the United Kingdom, the origin of fancy dress party could be traced back to masked balls of the 18th Century or sometimes, these parties are more commonly known as the masquerade. Before the mid 70’s, costumes party is simple event but until then, it changes a lot. With the modern trend affecting the costume party, we are seeing how the fancy dress outfits become more wild and unpredictable. As the fashion taste continue to change, we are seeing fancy dress outfits as extravagant as those wear by Lady Gaga, Madonna, the late Michael Jackson and many others.
Fancy dress parties are a popular event throughout the year in the United Kingdom. This is normal as we could see a lot of these parties on different functions. Whether it be to celebrate festivals like Halloween, Christmas or it is to celebrate the launching of movies or the release of books such as Harry Potter, we are seeing a lot of these celebrate with fancy dress party.
One of the infamous event related to fancy dress party is when Prince Harry infamously wore an Afrika Corps uniform with a Nazi armband to a “Colonials and Natives” themed party in January 2005. His fancy dress outfits was viewed as negative and disrespect to those who die because of the Nazi era. There was a large international outcry after the Sunday tabloid News of the World published a photo of him in the fancy dress outfits. Nevertheless the popularity of the fancy dress party does not fade.
A recent report by Market Research Media predicts that virtual conferences are poised to take over the conference market, growing to $18.6 billion (from nearly nothing today) in the next five years. Though it’s possible that virtual conferences could cannibalize the attendance of the real world conferences, there is more opportunity to increase the size of the market here. After all, attending a virtual version of a conference provides an intermediate tier for those who could not afford the exorbitant time and expense of traveling to a real-world conference. This is similar to what classical orchestras have been doing — using technology to provide a cheaper alternative to people interested, but unable, to attend their events.
As the wildly popular TED Talks have shown, if done well, it is already possible to share engaging conference talks with a wider audience online. That said, viewing TED videos does not come close to the real-world experience of being at a conference. For most conferences, the presentations are only a small part of the appeal — networking is a large part of draw. In an attempt to address this, Second Life and ON24 both offer virtual conference programs that are designed to replicate the real-world conference experience online, complete with avatars, virtual meetings and even virtual “goodie bags.” Even as someone who spends the bulk of their day online, I am a little skeptical that this will work out well. In order for this to work, the focus has to be on how best to connect people in the virtual world, and less about avatars and goodie bags — and even then, the additional value of meeting someone through a “virtual conference” seems marginal to the other online social networking options that already exist.
Having attended some great (and admittedly, very fun) conferences this year, I can see why conferences are sometimes considered boondoggles. After all, it is why Vegas has positioned itself as the king of all conference destinations. Though some argue that business relationships initiated in meetings during the day are solidified during the typical sponsored parties thrown at night, in lean times, being a known boondoggle is good a reason to be cut out of the budget. In the virtual world, perhaps Second Life is well positioned for this part of the conference “experience,” though maybe it should not have shut down all of its casinos.
[Editor’s Note: Rod Garrett’s essay Designing Black Rock City, originally written for the Burning Man website, provides a comprehensive history of the thinking and factors have that impacted the evolution of the Black Rock City Plan, and as such is an excellent starting framework for the consideration of Black Rock City as an urban planning […]
It is already a common fact that companies need to reinvent themselves and to attract more segments of the market as time goes by, in order to maintain their revenues. The Sunnyvale-based company attempted to regain its popularity during the fall of 2009, with several events all over the U.S. Apparently, they have decided to resume their effort hopi… (
Plantronics announced the latest addition to their product line, the Explorer 395. Designed to be an entry level headset, the Explorer 395 is based off of Plantronics standard design for ease of use and compatibility, but still has the sound quality you’d expect.
