ipod touch bluetooth headphones

[bazookaman]

Can I use a set of bluetooth headphones with my last gen ipod touch? My daughter has really gotten into listening to music and watching movies using headphones. But the cord is just getting caught on everything so i thought bluetooth headphones might be the answer. But I've never even tried bluetooth on the touch and don;t even know if it has it to be honest.

[kj4btkljv]

The iPod Touch has bluetooth:

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html

The only trouble I ever had getting an iPod or iPhone sending out audio to a bluetooth device was not being able to find the ID code to pair to the bluetooth receiver on the external device. I had to dig through the mfg. website to find the code. Other than that little hiccup, it worked great.

Jeff

[cbelt3]

yes, but sometimes the microphone ones don't work well, and the mono cell phone ones don't always work.

[bazookaman]

She doesn't need microphones. Just headphones since she'll just be listening. Are there good and bad ones out there? Ones that work better than others or ones to avoid completely? I'm looking for something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BH3...=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B004PYD88I&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=07FRX6G8GR1KMBPYF5WV but probably over the head not behind it.

[ztirffritz]

I bought these for my wife but her ears are too small so they don't fit. I use them, but they don't work well with my iMac, and after upgrading to Lion they don't work at all. They do work well with the iPad 2 though. I purchased mine from Yugster or Woot for about $20.

http://www.amazon.com/Lubix-UBHS-NC1-Ste...B000PEPDAS

[bazookaman]

I don't think those would work for a 4 year old.

[decay]

here they are on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/250803591591

doesn't appear to be any BT headphones geared to very young listeners, based upon my searches.

[Winston]

I found the same as decay. When our kids were little we had some kids' infrared headphones with a transmitter we plugged into our TV. Also had one for use with a small TV in the car. It's the same system that car video systems use now. That brand isn't available, but there are other kid's IR headphones available.
Cheap ones at Wal-Mart;
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Bravo-View-Wir...ds/9729857

a bit more expensive ones at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Kidz-Gear-Wireless...B003053L3U

The problem is that all of the transmitters I could find are relatively bulky and require an A/C adapter.

I looked to see if anyone made an IR transmitter for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, but all that I could find were geared to working as a remote control, not for sending audio. (Makes me wonder if one of these could transmit audio if someone wrote an app for that.) The closest I found is an enclosure for mounting an iPad in a car which contains an IR audio transmitter.

Looks to me like a niche that's being missed.


Good luck.

- Winston