Snorkel FM Radio

We've posted before about a very cool underwater music player which transmits sound to your ear drum via vibrations sent into the jaw bone.

Well, now there is another player in the underwater music category. The Amphicam Aqua FM radio snorkel snaps on to a regular mask and provides swimmers with plenty of listening pleasure also using a "unique bone conduction technology" according to the website. The difference here is that one must bite the mouthpiece for sound to be "conducted through the teeth and into the inner ear." Very cool. Or, very scary. I'm not sure which.

The only problem? Since FM waves don't travel underwater, reception disappears when one dives down. In fact, the whole contraption works only because an antenna is weaved into the snorkel, thus poking above the water.

This might be cool for those of you who like to swim laps with goggles and a snorkel. I tend to snorkel in remote locations, however, where FM frequencies are usually hard to find. Personally, I'd prefer the SwiMP3 –- all the MP3 files I want, and the ability to dive down.

(via the LA Times)

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