Gadgets…music..and fitness combined
I’ve always had a bit of a love/ hate thing going with swimming as a form of fitness. At one level, I am - or at least I was - quite a decent swimmer; and it’s exactly the sort of exercise I need to stop myself turning into a middle aged slug. On another level, frankly, it’s incredibly boring.
‘What you need,’ I always say, ‘is a radio or mp3 player that you can listen to underwater’. And it seems the great god of Gadgets (blessed be he), has heard my prayers: here is the Oregon 128mb underwater mp3 player/ fm radio courtesy of IWantOneOfThose.
I have a mental picture of me gliding up and down swimming pools, listenign to talking books and latest albums and the Today program. I can feel myself getting fitter, just looking at the order form.
Then again: if I get it..I’ll never have an excuse not to go swimming again.
Be careful what you wish for, as they say….
Update May I also introduce the Swimp3 player (of course) from Finsinc. [Press release (.pdf)]