How do they keep bacteria from growing on it inside the water?
Add some chlorine to the water.
Maybe. I'm not sure they would need to, the player isn't going to have much in the way of nutrients on it.
Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
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Re: Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
#102I'll hand it to Sony, they can come up with some sweet marketing campaigns. On a side note, do a lot of people really listen to music while swimming? In college I used to do 30 minutes of laps in the pool a couple times a week. I liked doing it precisely because you couldn't listen to music and you'd have to focus on keeping good form. It was just you and the water.
Waterproof listening devices have always been wishful thinking, but never actually implemented correctly nor have had the demand properly assessed (lots of people think they want them, but I'm not sure if they truly do) Challenges I see: - Cords get tangled really easily due to the nature of the sport (Solution - make them completely in ear) - Bulkiness slows you down or at least presents issues when they fall out (s…
Have you seen jcampbell1's post above?
Re: Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
#103"Though the device itself was launched a while ago, Sony turned to Auckland-based ad agency DraftFCB to help market the product in New Zealand. And so they came up with the Bottled Walkman, which is sold from vending machines in public places such as gyms. Check out the demo video for yourself." That's what's most interesting to me. Have we heard from anybody who's actually bought the player from a vending machine? T…
Even if you could actually buy it in your gym, what would you do with it, until you get back home and connect it with computer? Should it be pre-loaded with some MTV top-charts crap? Should someone periodically refresh the content with current music?
Should someone periodically refresh the content with current music?
That would presumably give Sony the ability to remotely wipe content from the device, which I can't help but imagine them abusing with maniacal glee.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you expect me to believe that a vending machine where I can buy a Coke for six quarters that I can also buy an MP3 player for 750 quarters? I am not buying it.
Vending machines often take credit cards over WiFi nowadays. Don't even get me started about the poor security practice of it all.
Plenty of airports have BestBuy vending machines.
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#105A few weeks ago my mate grabbed his Sony smartphone (I cannot recall the actual model since I'm clueless about smartphones), started recording a video, then threw it in the dog's water bowl. Great ten second video, including distorted sound. Water ? lame. What about vodka? At times like this I will side with General Ripper from Dr Strangelove . He never drank water, because the commies were poisoning it to pacify the…
I used to drop my Motorola Defy into friends alcoholic drinks while out as a party trick and ice breaker (literally?). Worked fine :)
Whereas about a dozen years ago I accidentally dropped my girlfriend's phone in a glass of coke... it was fucked.
It's great technology has advanced so much we can do underwater selfies.
Re: Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
#106"Though the device itself was launched a while ago, Sony turned to Auckland-based ad agency DraftFCB to help market the product in New Zealand. And so they came up with the Bottled Walkman, which is sold from vending machines in public places such as gyms. Check out the demo video for yourself." That's what's most interesting to me. Have we heard from anybody who's actually bought the player from a vending machine? T…
Even if you could actually buy it in your gym, what would you do with it, until you get back home and connect it with computer? Should it be pre-loaded with some MTV top-charts crap? Should someone periodically refresh the content with current music?
Even if you buy it at Best Buy, what would you do with it until you get back home and connect it with your computer?
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#107Re: Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
#108"Though the device itself was launched a while ago, Sony turned to Auckland-based ad agency DraftFCB to help market the product in New Zealand. And so they came up with the Bottled Walkman, which is sold from vending machines in public places such as gyms. Check out the demo video for yourself." That's what's most interesting to me. Have we heard from anybody who's actually bought the player from a vending machine? T…
So you expect me to believe that a vending machine where I can buy a Coke for six quarters that I can also buy an MP3 player for 750 quarters? I am not buying it.
There are vending machines specifically for selling electronics. You can pay by card.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
One litre of water is pretty close to one kg. It is roughly a cube 10 cm * 10 cm * 10 cm. (I carefully put qualifiers in because this is just a rough rule of thumb and different altitudes etc make a difference).
Actually, one liter is _exactly_ a cube 10cm x 10cm x 10cm.
I get nervous about precicsion with this because there's the stuff about raising one cubic cm of water by one celcius uses one joule. But there are a bunch of caveats to that and I can't remember them.
But thanks for the information!