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No noose is good news for Skype users

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Skype is awesome! For just a few pennies, I can make prank calls to tobacco stores in England and ask if they saw Prince Albert smoking tobacco in the can. Ah, good times...

Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit
Credit: Motorola

The only big problem with using Skype on a PC with normal wired headphones is that it's like wearing a noose around your neck. Add a wired mouse and a power cable and you've potentially got a tangled mess.

In about two months, Motorola will be releasing a solution--a kit that includes its current HT820 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones along with a Bluetooth dongle that attaches to a PC, letting Skype customers wirelessly listen to music and manage calls over the Internet simultaneously. Motorola announced the Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit at CTIA in Las Vegas. The price has not been announced, but one of our writers at our sister site Crave estimates that the whole deal will cost around $150.