The Cremation of the Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband

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The Cremation of the Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband

As my wife was preparing our supper last evening – everything was going so well. Two pots were on top of the stove and the chicken was in the oven cooking nicely at 350 degrees.

In front of our oven is a Baby’s High Chair that holds “stuff” for us. Among the “stuff” is the collection of our portable telephones and communication devices. There are two cell phones, two blue tooth ear pieces and one fancy arm bracelet, the Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband, that is kind of like a “Dick Tracy” wrist watch/communicator. (You have to be my age to remember that one…!)

I bought the wrist bracelet for her this past Christmas. The ear piece gets hot and is sometimes uncomfortable. The arm bracelet feels better.

Back to preparing supper…
Alida opened the oven door, which then comes fairly close to the High Chair. The heat rushed out as she checked the chicken.

Then it happened… her right elbow hit the High Chair top… knocking the small box filled with the telephones and communication “stuff” over… and as it fell over her cell phone and an blue tooth ear piece headed over the side and on to the oven door. Plop, slide, swish and the two were under the red hot element at the bottom of the stove!

She quickly grabbed her oven mitts, moved the chicken out of the way, and retrieved the cell phone that was now steaming hot having been just below the red element about ½ inch. She grabbed again towards the blue tooth ear piece which was now at the back of the oven and under the other red part…! As she grabbed it the oven mitt burst into flames as she had touched the red element.

At that point she had called me and was more than a little bit shaken by what had happened.

She got the chicken back in the oven. I tried the cell phone after it cooled down and it worked fine. The ear piece came on and off fine.

A few minutes later… Alida called again. This time in a panic. She had opened the oven door and ball of blue smoke had met her face… it smelled like plastic burning… and it was plastic just about to burn!!!!! The kitchen was stinking big time now – and it wasn’t chicken burning either!

The chicken came out again… and YIKES… there at the other side of the oven was the Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband – right under another part of the very hot element… but this time it was now in a very flattened form.

Carefully applying ice cubes to the plastic puddle made it possible to retrieve the Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband – or what was left of it.

I laughed and giggled the whole evening. My wife couldn’t see the humour that I did. Sorry… I am made that way.

The High Chair is now adjusted slightly to the right… the box is not going to be used the same way again… and the communicator are working well… all except the Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband.

I am thinking of going back to ask if the store can do anything about this one.. but I kind of think that it will not be possible.

Too funny!

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Resource
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/helium-digital-hdbt-990-bluetooth-wristband-gets-reviewed-given/