Hasta La Gadget!

If you tend to lose your Bluetooth headset, check out this new accessory from Newton Peripherals that I saw at the ShowStoppers press event last night. It’s a backpack that snaps onto a BlackBerry Curve and holds a MoGo Talk headset, a super-thin gadget which we reviewed in another incarnation a few months ago. In other words, it sort of turns any phone into an LG Decoy.

The backpack, unfortunately, does not charge the headset – you have to plug  in a separate MicroUSB cable – but at least it prevents you from misplacing the darn thing. Newton also makes a backpack for iPhones, with the same headset-hiding ability. The MoGo Talk headset itself has pretty good sound, our reviewer Jamie Lendino found, although its extremely slim form factor means it has pretty short battery life.

Newton says their iPhone backpack should be available later this month, and the BlackBerry model should come before the end of this year.