My pals at Jawbone have done it again, but this time it’s not all hardware (although, as you can see they brought the future to us once again on the industrial design front). The biggest announcement is the new MyTALK feature, and it seems to be pretty bad-ass. It’s like an “App Store” for your headset. Easy access to 411, voice-to-SMS, and finally Jawbone talks back to you telling you when the battery is low, who is calling, and so on– all with pretty fun, realistic customizable voices. I actually think they might have unearthed a pretty significant new business opportunity here.

Just a gentle holiday weekend reminder to get your answers in for the gold and silver Jawbone 2 giveaway: Who can find the cheesiest song, music video, or album with the word Gold or Silver in the title? We’ll be grilling meat, and charring ourselves with tanning and illegal fireworks. But, before we let you go, why haven’t we seen these obvious answers?

3. Black Gold – Soul Asylum (Now that is grunge … and for some reason, George Wendt.)

2. Gold Dust Woman – Fleetwood Mac (If you want to see Stevie Nicks live, she’s probably playing a casino near you.)

and our #1 pick after the jump. Happy Independence Day!

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We gushed about the release of the Aliph Jawbone 2, but when it launched it was only available in black (as shown here on the right). It’s very stealth, but not sexy enough for some. The new Jawbone is a vastly improved product with a much smaller form factor, more comfortable leather ear loop, and the slickest charging dock on the market. Oh, and as you can see, they just launched gold and silver versions of the headset. And guess what? We’ve got one of each to give away to two lucky readers. Glitzy gold and sparkling silver — one could be yours very shortly.

Last time around we had you talk dirty, sweet, and trashy to win. This time, we’re giving them away to the best answer to the following question:

Who can find the cheesiest song, music video, or album with the word Gold or Silver in the title?

Post in the comments — whoever gets me laughing the most, wins.

Related: Jawbone Limited Edition Headsets

We’ve been Jawbone fans since the beginning, even back in 2004 when the first non-bluetooth version launched. Creating the “best bluetooth headset ever” and “sexiest way to talk” wasn’t enough for Yves Behar, so he had to go on and create a line of ridiculously sexy limited edition headsets shown above — we approve. Gold is for sweet talk, black is for dirty talk, white is for trash talk.

They were made in a *very* limited quantity, so these will no doubt dry up quickly (and you can’t buy them anywhere). Good thing I secured a set of them here at TED to give away to you, my fellow readers, right?

But I’m not going to let go of them easily, here are the rules:

The best sweet talk to me gets the gold adorned sweet talk headset, dirty talk, gets the sexy black dirty talk version, and trash talk (talk trash) gets the coveted shiny white trash talk version. Leave your dirty, sexy, and trash talk in the comments for me, and have fun. (FYI: comments below may be a liiiiitle NSFW. Just a heads up.)
Full product shots after the jump, courtesy of fuseproject…

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Must you wear one? I’m not personally a huge fan of the bluetooth headset craze. Yeah, they’re convenient, but I just can’t get used to seeing people walking down the street talking to themselves, er…someone. It’s weird. New York has enough crazy people on the streets, now we’ve got them looking mostly normal, other than the wild gesticulations.

But, if you must, you must. And if you must, then you must have a look at Jabra’s newest addition to its bluetooth line. The BT3010 allows you to choose from a variety of designs on their website, including 8 submitted by users, so at least you can add a little flair to your technological insanity. Of course, it’s probably only a matter of time before someone figures out how to change out the image on the earpiece making it fully user-changeable. They guys over at Complex are partial to a Space Invaders theme. What’s your poison? If you could slap any design on your bluetooth thingamawidget, what would it be?

Related: Jawbone Archive

Due to an overwhelming response to our Jawbone Giveaway last week, I’ve decided to extend the contest by another week, giving readers another 5 days to register their email addresses into our mailing list for a chance to win the best Bluetooth headset on the market, period. If you aren’t feeling lucky, don’t want to wait for the results on Friday, and want one right away, Jawbone’s website has several units back in stock for $120.

The Jawbone is not only the best performing bluetooth headset on the market hands down, but easily the best looking– designed by the legendary Yves Behar. The Jawbone uses a super-duper patent pending noise cancellation device that literally cuts the background noise out completely. I’ve tried this in cars with the windows down, standing by waterfalls, inside small airplanes and the person on the other side of the line still thinks I’m sitting in a vacuum sealed executive office. As many of you have probably noticed, they’re sold out everywhere due to such high demand! I spent quite a bit of time with good folks at Jawbone last week at TED and they gave us a couple of these bad boys to give away to JoshSpear.com readers. Sign up for our mailing list during the next week and 3 random winners will get their choice of a black, silver or red headset.

If you have a Bluetooth enabled phone and an iPod, and you’re tired of toggling back and forth between your devices, you need the Lenntek Hookup ($130). The Hookup works through a wireless receiver with a built-in microphone that connects iPod to mobile phone, and provides a toggling function so you can use one controller to control two devices. The wireless transmitter runs off of a rechargeable Li-ion battery, and is small and slim enough so that you’ll barely notice it. The Hookup’s ‘2 into 1′ functionality allows you to throw your phone and iPod into your pocket or bag and forget about them– finally! Lenntek also just launched similar products for iPod Nano (the Hookup Lanyard) and your auto (the Hookup Auto).

Let's face it, traveling with a laptop and all the peripherals can become a maze of tangled wires and chords, but the new MoGo Bluetooth Mouse, from Newton Peripherals aims to reduce some the chaos for the computer commuter. The MoGo MouseBT is a business-card sized, Bluetooth-enabled mouse that stores and recharges neatly inside…that's right, inside…your laptop's PC card slot when it's not being used. The MoGo MouseBT is compatible with both PC and Mac, check out the website for purchasing details.