{"id":4028,"date":"2014-09-29T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2014-09-29T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T03:16:04","slug":"sony-takes-walkman-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/sony-takes-walkman-underwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony takes the Walkman underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w-walkman.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4029\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w-walkman-300x217.jpeg\" alt=\"w walkman\" width=\"218\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w-walkman-300x217.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w-walkman-150x109.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w-walkman-76x55.jpeg 76w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w-walkman.jpeg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>When Sony introduced its Walkman portable music player in 1979 I bet they couldn\u2019t have imagined that 35 years later users would be grooving to tunes on their walkman device underwater&#8230;but that\u2019s what they\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.com.au\/pa-mp3-walkman\/range\/For-The-Sports-Enthusiasts\/587358\" target=\"_blank\">W series Walkman<\/a> is a 4-gigabyte MP3 player that\u2019s waterproof enough to take swimming and Sony demonstrated this by letting the Australian Synchronized swimming team try it out before competing in this week\u2019s Synchronized swimming world cup. (see the video below)<\/p>\n<p>This week I caught up with\u00a0Abel Makhraz from Sony Australia to talk about the latest Walkman and to find out exactly how waterproof it is. 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