Nov 29, 2007

Waterproof MP3 Player

It is a good idea to "enliven your lap swimming, rotating air in the spa, add a soundtrack to your dive. Why don't you try out a totally water (and sand) proof MP3 Player?

It is a technical challenge to make it, you recall, with both delicate splashzones being the headphones, which must fit snug and dry, and the basis upon which your headphone plug leakproofing essential.

The Nu Dolphin Swimmer uses headphones with a triple flange on the inner side to keep the the water and keep the ear buds, while actually screw the plug into the jack to make a complete seal.

The cable is necessarily short, since the tube, as a player is designed to attach to glasses or mask. Two orange straps do very well, you feel little weight and control (that you can not see when you wear a swimsuit) are small but easy to master. There are also three small white crocodile claws to pin the cable in place, if necessary. This clever design is good in the water, but the player makes it rather tricky for land use, because unless something pinned at about the height of the neck angle, but it goes too high for comfort.


The sound quality is not the best, with its long sound-delivery tubes minimizing the bass reach your eardrums, so things sound rather light. You can not change the headphones, either, because you need the screw seal (and anyway the dolphin has a non-standard 2.5mm support, so that others will not fit). Beyond that, well designed.

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