Everyone should exercise, but it can be a boring prospect. Sure you could set up a treadmill in your living room in front of you television, but what about for those who wish to swim 3000 yards in their lap pools? That said; let's review the FINIS SwiMP3 player.
The repetitiveness of swimming endless laps in a lap pool, following that black like can be just like running on a treadmill, boring to say the least. And if we're being completely honest, it is probably about as much fun as jamming a screwdriver into your ear. Well, at least you may feel like jamming a screwdriver into your ear just to break the monotony and forget the boring reality of the last 100 yards you covered.
The FINIS SwiMP3 player is an underwater design that is reminiscent of the Bone-Phone from back in the early eighties. The Bone-Phone was your basic high-tech scarf that encompassed two speakers within. Like magic, the vibrations would pass through your bones and into your ears to enable you to hear the music. The concept was great, and you were meant to point the speakers at your collarbone, but these seemed to work much better when you pointed the speakers toward your ears.
The same technology of bone conduction (patented, by the way) is used in the FINIS swiMP3 player. Instead of this device using the collarbone for conduction, it conducts through the cheekbones. The vibration that creates the sound travels through your cheekbones and into your ears. The sound quality of the FINIS SwiMP3 player seems to be much better when you move the speakers closer to the ears.
The FINIS SwiMP3 player does work as advertised, but it is also a bit finicky. Mounting it to your goggles is a bit difficult and keeping it there is iffy. There are tiny controls that may be hard to use for thicker fingers. Changing the song and the volume can be a bit tricky. Actually wearing it can pose a bit of a problem, too. Loading new songs onto the player or recharging it is a simple process that can be done via the USB connector; this is great and convenient as it can be used with either a Mac or a PC.
Once you can get past all of its finicky qualities, the FINIS SwiMP3 can be quite fun to use. So, is this device worth its price tag? The Bone-Phone that allowed me to listen to some music while skiing cost a great deal more than the SwiMP3 and it just barely worked as advertised. The way that this device makes swimming those boring, repetitive laps seem to just fly by allowing you to do your 3000 yards in no time at all while listening to your favorite music makes this device so much better than jamming a screwdriver into your. In translation, that means that the value of the item meets the price asked.