Executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, Michael Foley, reveals, “It’s going to enable an entirely new market for Bluetooth and allow it to be used in a category of products that Bluetooth just couldn’t be used in before.”

Even exercise equipment will be taking off with this new Bluetooth technology, leaving earlier versions in the proverbial dust.

From the ability to use Bluetooth in small devices such as watches and pedometers to a new adoption of low-energy specification, this new upgrade will have you singing Bluetooth’s praises yet again. Expect 4.0 to hit markets by the end of 2010.

With the ability to record up to eight minutes of conversation, gossipers beware.  The new headset features Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, noise cancellation features and 6 hours of talk time.

Cost, $109.

Relying on the sun’s power, you won’t have to worry about continually charging your headset when you go with this Bluetooh set.  You’ll be so fashion and environmentally-forward sporting this little gadget.

Designed by Philippe Starck for the Paris-based electronic company Parrot, these stunningly sleek Bluetooth Speakers are just what the good doctor ordered.  Wireless with a iPhone/iPod dock, these speakers also double as a charger.

With a WiFi commection embedded in the actual speakers, you can now download your favorite tunes with complete ease.  The only sad news, doesn’t yet work with Macs.  Cost, $1500 per pair. 

Thanks for the heads-up, Cindy!

The HALO headset will give you plenty of good talk time at 8 hours and a standby time of 13 days.  Weighing in at 2.8 ounces, you may look like you’re wearing a clunky helmet, but at least it won’t feel like it.  And isn’t that worth something?

The sensitivity on the set is a plus, with just a sweep of the hand you can quickly adjust the volume to the HALO.  The headset also features Noise Blackout dual-mic technology and you can connect them to pretty much anything you throw at them- MP3 player, cellphone, TV.

Available later this summer for $150.

Verizon has teamed up with UTStarcom to release their TXT8010 as the “Blitz”, a smartphone for tweens. That’s right TWEENS. It’s a crackberry for the Hanna Montana crowd!

The slider phone features a full qwerty keyboard, VCAST music, a microSD slot, 1.3 megapixel camera, and, of course, Bluetooth (so they have a tween sized bluetooth ear piece) and it’s only $70 with a 2-year contract.

I’m actually all for kids having cellphones from a safety standpoint. I love the idea that my child could call me if they were lost or we were somehow separated (although my child does not currently have a cell phone), but I really think that a full blown qwerty, vcast, bluetooth device might be a little much. I don’t know.

I would imagine this will also appeal to people with small hands. So there’s definitely some room for success in the small hands market.

If you’ve ever wanted to walk around looking like you had a piece of new technology that was actually secretly created in the 1950s – well, my friend, then you’re going to want to check out the Zivio Boom.

This retro looking Bluetooth headset offers up over 10 hours of talk time, and features an extending boom that looks like it fell straight out of a long time ago.

The device is available now, and can be yours for the not-so-retro price of $130.

Also known as BT4010, the bluetooth headset displays icons so you don’t have to figure out the meaning of the normal LED lights that most headsets use. A simple and good system, that will probably make the gadget more expensive, but in the end it is well worth it.

In terms of battery life, the latest Jabra headset is able to offer 6 hours of talk time.

A light-weight headset – less than 10 grams.

The USB part is good to transfer data from the memory cards, into to the computer. Since the DTech is a 55-in-1 reader, you shouldn’t have to worry much about the support for different memory cards.

As for the bluetooth function, it is perfect to add a wireless connection to your computer, so you can communicate with a cellphone, or any other gadget that has bluetooth enabled. Additionally, there are 2 USB ports to make it a real multi-functional device.

Priced at $29.