Tech – Finis Neptune Underwater MP3 player
The UK on the whole has been experiencing a bit of a heat wave over the past months (probably because it’s summer). This has led to weathermen treating BBC World Weather like an alternate version of Match of the Day: ‘and London is 32 degrees today which is five more than Madrid; stay tuned for Warsaw vs Berlin’. What makes this even stranger is that this received a large cheer in the pub where The Gentleman’s Journal happened to be drinking. Now that actual football has arrived this has, thankfully, stopped.
However, the summer is determined to go out with a bang and this has made swimming a very attractive proposal. The number of models in bikinis, for example, has increased exponentially since June which is never a bad thing; especially if your name is Kate Upton or Candice Swanepoel (NOT Miley Cyrus). Now, swimwear has always been confusing to some of us at The Gentleman’s Journal because if you buy it at most stores it is a ‘bikini’ or ‘swimming trunks.’ However, if you buy it at M&S it’s considered ‘lingerie’ or ‘boxers’.
Confusing terminology and bathing beauties aside, swimming is rather nice. And so is music, but if you are swimming in the sea it can be a bit difficult to hook up some underwater speakers to the Mediterranean. The answer to this conundrum comes in the shape of these odd looking contraptions from Finis and, to be frank, they look like something the CIA would attach to troublesome inmates at Guantanamo. They are different to most underwater headphones because they use Bone Conduction which transmits sound through the cheekbones into the Inner Ear, directly giving a clear sound – and they doesn’t disrupt your ears if one of the speakers falls out. The screen is an LED one so clarity is fine, although it is meant to sit on the back of the head. Call us idiots but that slightly defeats the point of having a screen. But the clips are hydrodynamic which means they don’t drag underwater and are waterproof up to 3 m (about one and a half Michael Jordans). Meaning that deep sea diving is out but for a casual cruise these are pretty damn good and not as expensive as you might think. Give it a go, you will be impressed!
For more information or to purchase a Finis Neptune Underwater MP3 Player visit finisinc.com
By Edward Hambro Rabben
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