It is always great when military grade technology trickles down into the consumer market. The Nextlink Invisio Q7 is a really small headset that rests in the ear canal with sound isolation due to the rubber silicone speaker membrane, which resembles a small disk.
A small piece of plastic that rests and wedges the headset by applying pressure to the outer ear called the Soft Spring.
The cool thing is that it has a Bone Conduction Microphone (see that nub at the bottom of the earpiece that is a bone vibration detector) capable of picking up existing vibrations in the jawbone set off by your own voice and also eliminates surrounding ambient noise. We really liked its small profile, I guess hence its name Invisio. The Invisio Q7 weighs in under 11 grams, measures in at 4.3 x 1.8 cm, and has up to 6 hours talktime and 100 hours of standby time on a full charge. The Invisio Q7 uses Bluetooth V.2.0 with EDR and is compatible with all Bluetooth enabled mobile phones on the market and has a suggested retail price of $179.It looks like Amazon will be carrying them here.
For those in wet conditions they have the Invisio PRO-M submersible, which is only headset for underwater operations up to 20m. It uses a waterproof Bone Conduction Microphone in an advanced waterproof housing with a scientifically designed speaker silicon membrane.
We don't know how well the Invisio line sounds or if it actually works well until we try it, but if it works like the Jawbone we may have a new winner on our hands for comfort, size, and noise cancellation.