After-market headphones with hot keys?

So the stock headphones come with the ability to pause music and skip to next track (among other things) via a built-in clicker. I wonder if this means there are other features that can be exposed via after-market headphones.
Since I listen to podcasts and audiobooks, I'd like to be able to quickly go back and forward within the track via a headphone "hot key". Most important is going back say 10 seconds if I miss something due do noises nearby. This is more important on iPhone than on iPod because the touch-interface for ff/rw on long podcast/audiobook tracks is not as good as using the old click-wheel.
I don't expect Apple will add these features to their stock headphones since they like to keep things simple, but if they exposed this capability via the headphone "API" (seems it might already be there), then other vendors could supply headphones with these sorts of hot keys for geeks like me.
Anyone know if these sorts of actions are exposed via headphone jack and if any vendors are planning to add headphones with such capabilities?

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