If you’ve been to a gym in the last decade you’ve witnessed at least one great human struggle – how to get music to my ears without ruining my workout. As iPods continue to shrink, it’s easy to strap one on your arm and forget about it. That is, unless you want to move. At 6’3″ I have yet to find a pair of headphones that will both stay in place while I’m biking and remain tangle-free while I work my dumbbell sets.
Enter Sony’s latest Walkman, the NWZ-W202. Sony took the bright yellow radiophones of yesteryear and slimmed them down to an ultralight 1.3 ounces, replaced the FM receiver with a 2GB mp3 player, and added a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 12 hours. The best feature (you almost sold me, Sony) is easily the quick charge, which yields 90 minutes of playback from a 3-minute charge. Now I don’t have to postpone my workouts while I wait on my iPod to charge. So why won’t I be buying a pair?
