NY Times review and slide show of waterproof MP3 players

Full article: www.nytimes.com/.../20080403_PHYS_SLIDESHOW_index.html By SARAH BOWEN SHEA The New York Times "SOME swimmers joke that the only way to fight the boredom of laps is to get a good song stuck in their heads. The first generation of waterproof MP3 players didn’t always offer sweet distraction, because the devices held too few songs and sometimes shorted out in water. Now that second-generation MP3 players offer better technology, fitness swimmers can listen to Maroon 5 and the Bravery instead of recreating a song in their heads.... .....To gauge the feasibility of listening to music in the pool, Katie McClelland, 31, a swimmer with Dallas Aquatics Masters who has broken two FINA world records for amateur adults in *** stroke, tried four waterproof players and one case-headphone combo. “When I swim by myself,” she said, 'I could use the entertainment.'” Slideshow: #1: AQUAPAC MP3 CASE AND WATERPROOF HEADPHONES #2: FINIS SWIMP3 V.2 #3: SPEEDO AQUABEAT #4: NU TECHNOLOGY DOLPHIN 1GB WATERPROOF MP3 PLAYER #5: INTOVA 256MB WATERPROOF MP3 PLAYER