PacoBell: Because the earpiece is a passive inductive device.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference

Even though the earpiece was a little large for me, the earloop provided a sturdy grip, and the headset did not move around.    From Wordnik.com.  [PC World] Reference

The excuse with the earpiece is very lame, but the management can’t use this “technical problem” every time she sings live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor Swift’s Grammy 2010 Performance: Label CEO Blames Technical Issue] Reference

Check that earpiece is working.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2006] Reference

Having this kind of earpiece would have definitely helped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference

  She had the cellphone and earpiece in her hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cellphone Girl (Part I)] Reference

"London HQ; what is it, Houston?" asked the earpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penal Cluster] Reference

ZAHN: ... there's some feedback coming into your earpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2002] Reference

Oh, I know you're having some problems with your earpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Dan Liebman Handicaps Today's Kentucky Derby - May 6, 2000] Reference

You know, the checking the earpiece, all that sort of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2003] Reference

I noticed that your earpiece popped out there again, Senator.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2008] Reference

One hand held the control box for the little earpiece he wore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penal Cluster] Reference

S. O'BRIEN: It's really the tell-tale earpiece that kind of.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2005] Reference

And, you know, lots of people - I can ` t keep this earpiece in.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2006] Reference

I hope you can still here me as you mess with your earpiece there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Dan Liebman Handicaps Today's Kentucky Derby - May 6, 2000] Reference

He seems satisfied as a tinny voice is heard through the earpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hundreds of Hefner Girlfriends Lost, Feared Dead] Reference

ROBERTS: David, I'll give you a chance to put your earpiece back in.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2009] Reference

GRACE: Hold on, hold on, let me just check this earpiece for a minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2005] Reference

She's wearing an earpiece, and referring to the folks in the control room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs In The Key Of Strife] Reference

A stereo and an iPhone earpiece were stolen from a vehicle entered by force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montgomery County crime report] Reference

I started to put the receiver down, but brought the earpiece back to my nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Things You Never Forget] Reference

OK, I briefly, this may have been my earpiece here, but briefly lost the mayor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2005] Reference

How about when a producer says into my earpiece, take it up a couple of notches?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2009] Reference

CARDOZA: I was pointing here because I was getting feedback on my earpiece, so.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2006] Reference

(Moore was, in fact, wearing an earpiece so that she could have lines fed to her.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsmakers] Reference

We'll let him get adjusted there and get that earpiece in and get himself together.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2008] Reference

He's trying to get himself together, trying to get his IFP (ph) and his earpiece in.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2008] Reference

Dr. Black uses a wired earpiece himself, and encourages his patients to do the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Cell Phones and Brain Tumors: A No-Brainer] Reference

NELSON: I don't have an earpiece, so you're going to have to tell me what he's saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2007] Reference

GUPTA: So, you know, simply using a wired earpiece like this, I use this all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2009] Reference

  There, in the side pocket, she found her cellphone and the earpiece she wore so often.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cellphone Girl (Part I)] Reference

He replaced the cumbersome headset once used for Arabic translations with a discreet earpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [We're Losing the Infowar] Reference

The phone was working splendidly; even those without an earpiece could hear the over-production.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

With an earpiece that doubles as a microphone and a speaker, it helps end dangerous phone fumbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hearing Is Believing] Reference

I'm putting my earpiece in back, Don, because I just lost that a moment ago so please bear with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2009] Reference

In fairness, ABC says Miller's earpiece wasn't working, and she was just pretending to hear Hunter's answers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2007] Reference

But the woman said to me man, who is that -- during the commercial and I had my little earpiece on -- who is that girl?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Katie Couric Talks About Her New Book, Her New Look and Life After Tragedy - December 18, 2000] Reference

M. O'BRIEN: Dannielle Romano is back and because she doesn't have an earpiece, we finally gave her an opportunity to hear the music.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005] Reference