Swimming is slimming, but the sound of silence can drown you.  chiqtech.com finds that it won’t be all quiet and dull working out under water, especially if you’re hooked into the waterproof Aquabeat MP3 Player from Speedo.

Through the years, climbers, cyclists, joggers and fitness buffs use music to get into that right mind-set to push/punish their bodies— or at least distract them from the mundaness that sometimes come with routine. For that Apple and their rivals been serving up nano-iPods and mini-to-micro MP3 players to perhaps the ultimate end: music players the size of mere molecules.

How about the swimmers? The Scuba divers? The surfers? Doesn’t anyone care about them?

Speedo does, Speedo does care a lot and it gives the water buffs the Speedo Aquabeat waterproof MP3 Player.

Coming in at a compact 61 by 46 by 20 mm and weighing just 35 grams, the waterproof Aquabeat MP3 player can be submersed into 3 meters, it can float for easy retrieval, in case of a wipeout.

The waterproof Aquabeat MP3 player is hooked to your swimming goggles’ strap then worn on the back of your head with hook-over-ear waterproof earphones. This way, the MP3 player appears ordinarily like an attachment of your goggles and stays out of sight and out of the way. Of course, it can also be hooked on to a strap on your bikini or strapped to your arm with an optional adjustable armband.

The Aquabeat MP3 player has the regular controls with big simple play, pause, rewind and fast-forward buttons. It can store up to 1 gigabyte of music, supports WMA files, has can keep on playing for nine hours of battery life and can be recharged through USB port of a PC/Laptop. Talk about having a pool party!

The Aquabeat MP3 player comes with a price tag of $144.99 and you can select from a choice of three colors — pink, lime and black.