Check out these 2 new head-mounted mp3 players:
Finis SwiMP3–
This mp3 player conducts sound through your cheekbone. The player sticks to the back of your head and two cable-attached conductors clip onto your goggles, like Lando Calrisian’s Bald Cyborg Cheif of Security on Cloud City. Can you put this on a diving mask and listen while you’re out SCUBA diving?How deep can you take this thing before the pressure damages it? And how are you supposed to use these if you go out surfing (like it says in this article), do you need to wear gogs? If so, how do you deal with all of the other surfers pointing and laughing at you? Costs $239.95 and holds 128MB.
Oakley Thump–
MP3 player mounted on to the arms of a pair of Oakleys. The buds branch out on a pair of legs into your ear canals, and the lenses flip up so you can let everyone know just how geeky you really are. How does the Thump handle, oh… say, a faceplant (or more likely, several) after botching a big jump, smacking down hard on compacted snow? One thing is for certain: the Thump will give you a very distinctive, butt ugly raccoon mask after a weekend at Mammoth. Costs $495, holds 256MB, and has polarized lenses. A 128MB, non-polarized version is available, but why the heck would you say no to double the memory and polarized lenses for just another C note?
Of course, for the IPod people there is the U2 IPod Special Edition–
A new color scheme and the signatures of the band members on the back, along with a $50 coupon for U2’s soon to be released complete anthology. This MP3 player doesn’t really make for a good comparison for the ones listed above, but inevitably serves as the mp3 player to which all others are judged. Really, it’s just a regular IPod in new clothing- can’t easily mount to your skull, doesn’t come with polarized lenses, and is not waterproof, but it has 20GB. Except that its the Boooooooner Special Edition. Buy one and stand out from your fellow IPod people, but not really. 20Gigs, $349, white earphones, and Boner written on the back of your IPod!
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