SwiMP3 Surf

In between occasionally eating cake for dinner and cookies for lunch, I do make an effort to be healthy. I’m an avid swimmer, logging hours of laps in the city pool each week. I switch up my routine with the frog to backstroke to freestyle, but as any runner knows, things get boring fast. If it weren’t for my SwiMP3 underwater MP3 player, I would probably be a 200 pound fatty with no way out of Fat Land. I bought Finis’ SwiMP3 more than two years ago (and it’s still alive and kickin’, which is more than I can say about my iPod) because I was curious about its bone-conduction technology. Rather than earphones, the SwiMP3 transmits music through your cheekbones to your inner ear, and since water acts as natural earplugs while you’re underneath, the sound is crystal-clear and you don’t have to freak out over not being able to hear a kid’s friends egging him on to do a cannonball right into your path. Finis has recently improved on the SwiMP3 with a more streamlined version, which now packs in 256MB of music and plugs directly into your computer’s USB port so you can load up more easily the tunes that get your heart rate in the ideal zone. For those of you who have the old version, they’re offering a great trade-in deal where you pay $90 to get the upgrade.

Surfers might prefer the SwiMP3 Surf, which uses the traditional setup of earphones attached to a separate device, but my question is, What the hay happens when someone yells “Shark!”?