Abstract: A protective helmet utilizes Bluetooth technology to integrate components of a hands-free, voice-activated telephonic communication system and a hands-free, voice-activated route guidance system. The Bluetooth transceiver provides the hub through which communications among the various components of the telephonic and route guidance systems take place. Incoming calls can be screened based on audible caller-IDs and outgoing calls placed based on spoken identifiers. In response to a spoken destination name, audible turn-by-turn route instructions are generated.