If you're a swimmer, then you'll know what a pain it is when cases that claim to be 'waterproof' leak, and your iPod suddenly dies mid-breaststroke. Well, here's a waterproof case that has won an award for best iPod Shuffle case of the year, and intriguingly, clips to the back of your head.

Makers H2O Audio reckon that it'll go down to 3.6m deep, and because it's positioned on the back of your head, it reduces "water drag". It'll attach easily to your googles, so it won't fall off, though what the sound quality is like on the attached headphones when you're underwater remains to be seen. Oh, and did I mention it costs £60? Pick it up from the H2O Audio website.

H2O Audio

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These are Overboard's Pro-Sports headphones. Designed for surfers, waterskiiers, boaters, dinghyists and fishermen of all types, they're waterproof and feature a neckband and coiled cable that won't let your cables tangle up when you least expect them to.

As with most headphones, they come with small, medium and large earbuds, and they're compatible with Overboard's iPod case, too. They claim they still sound great upto 6m below the water. At 6.5m, I expect they sound average, with "bad" hitting in at about 7.5m, around the same time your eardrums collapse from the pressure.

A little bit of backstory: a Tiger Woods golf title from EA seems to have a glitch in it which allows the user to walk onto water hazards and hit balls from there as if they were dry land. A user, Levinator25, took some footage of this, and uploaded it onto YouTube, mocking the company.

However the company have hit back with a video response of their own - here it is:

It's wonderful to see a company as big as EA completely understand the YouTube subculture, and how to use it to turn bad publicity into a great marketing strategy. I'm not going to run out and buy the Tiger Woods game in question because of it, but I do think a lot more highly of them than I did before, and I'm posting about it right here. Nice work guys!

Tiger Woods 09 - Walk on Water (via Mashable)

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Wow. There's popularity and then there's Michael Phelps. The world's greatest Olympian now has well over a million "fans" on his Facebook page. In fact, at the time of writing he has precisely 1,179,702 fans.

The human torpedo is still in second place for most popular fan page, behind US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who currently has 1,354,892 fans on the popular social networking site. Rates of growth, however, suggest that Phelpsy might pass Obama as soon as the next few hours - he only has 170,000 to go, and he's gained a hundred since I started writing this post!

Okay - picture the situation. You're sat in a bar. In through the door swims mega-Olympian Michael Phelps (he never walks anywhere). Emboldened by liquor, you shout "Oi! Phelpsy". He doggypaddles over and eyes you up suspiciously. "Schwimming... it's eashy", you slur. Phelps doesn't reply. "I bet you fifty quid I could shwim fashter than you!" you continue. Phelps narrows his eyes and fixes you with a steely glare. "I'll meet you down at the schwimming pool, at 9am tomorrow!" you cry, and fall off your stool.

The following morning, at 9am sharp, you limp into the car park of the leisure centre, wracked with regret. Your hangover isn't helping your panic, either - how on earth could you possibly beat the fastest swimmer on earth? All of a sudden, a huge limo pulls into the car park. It's the CEO of Lunocet. He hands you a pair of foot-fins, winks, and screeches off, leaving you coughing in the dust.

Michael Phelps is officially the greatest Olympian ever, scoring eight gold medals in one Olympic Games - something which has never before been achieved. Unfortunately, a tonne of Americans were pissed off over the weekend due to "spoilers" released by CNN Breaking News, and its unofficial Twitter feed (cnnbrk).

Turns out that some people were avoiding the news, waiting to watch the race in their own time to find out if he was going to win his eighth gold. Those people were mightily miffed when they received an SMS telling them the news. Which begs the question: why follow cnnbrk in the first place then?

(via TechCrunch)

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Not that many robotic fish come our way at Tech Digest, but this one's pretty awesome. It's a kit which simulates the experience of sitting for hours on end by a river getting cold and hungry, all in the comfort of your own home.

The kit consists of a fish, a rod and a lure. You chuck the 22.5cm-long fish (which looks vaguely like a bass, if bass were made of plastic) in your bathtub and it swims around happily - even avoiding you if you start floundering around too much. The fish apparently even moves its lips just like a real fish. It's not really my plaice to say whether that's true or not - I've never studied a fish's lips too closely.

Do you ever find yourself staring forlornly at the Ping Pong table in your garage at 3am, wanting to bat a table tennis ball about but feeling that it might be a bit antisocial to wake up your neighbor for a quick knockabout? It's your lucky day. Robopong is a robot that'll fire up to 200 table tennis balls at you.

It's heavily configurable - you can adjust the angle, speed and frequency of the barrage, and it comes with a remote control that lets you adjust these variables from the comfort of your side of the table. This isn't just a toy either - Yiyong Fan (the #2 table tennis player in the US) uses machines built by the same company in his practice sessions.

Celebrating its position as "Official Camera Sponsor" of Chelsea FC, Samsung has announced the launch of two limited edition digital cameras: the Samsung NV4 Titanium and Samsung L100.

If you loathe the Blues, you'll want to look away now, because both come with the Chelsea FC team crest stuck to them so there's little doubt which football team you support.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that it will be showing news and sports highlights from the Beijing Olympics in countries where no broadcaster has exclusive rights. The Video on Demand service will be available on a YouTube channel.

That means some 75 countries, including India and Nigeria, will be able to watch the best bits of the Games, as determined by the IOC. The channel will be "geo-blocked" so that those of us in countries where a TV broadcaster is already showing coverage of the Games won't be able to access the YouTube footage.

Since the BBC will be near-exhaustively covering the Games, official YouTube clips won't be available in the UK.

One sure-fire way to come up with a new idea for an invention is to simply add "electric" to the name of a product that already exists as after all, if something is electronic it is automatically better than its predecessor. Take the electric toothbrush, for example, or even the electric chair - chairs couldn't kill anyone until someone had the bright idea of putting electricity inside them.

It's with this mantra that Shimano have improved upon the humble bicycle, by coming up with an electronic gear system that they reckon will "improve performance" and "reduce maintenance".

The Rocket Racing League launched its first ever rocket-powered racing plane this week in what it hopes will be the first of many high speed, highly combustible, aerobatic demonstrations.

The event is hopes to become the "NASCAR for the skies", presumably because it wants all the glamour, spectacle and excitement of NASCAR, not because it wants a load of planes flying around in a big boring circle for hours on end.

If you're already getting a bit excited about watching the world's finest athletes wheezing their way through the Beijing smog, our lovely BBC has the perfect internet accompaniment for you.

The Interactive Map has icons representing each Olympic venue hovering over the city, with nice little facts - and fantastic photos of the Chinese buildings - popping up when you click on them.

BBC sports man Ollie Williams explains some of the technical aspects behind it in a blog update, but we don't care about that. We just want to find some bigger photos of the sensational-looking University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium.

(Via BBC)

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Good old Andy Murray. He gave us a few moments of hope, before Bravely Crashing Out At Quarter Final Stage (TM) as British sporting heroes tend to do.

If you want to forever own a piece of sporting nearly-history, you can - Andy and war injury charity Help for Heroes have teamed up to flog one of his racquets on eBay.

The racquet - a Head Radical Microgel Pro - is the one Andy used in the match before his embarrassing quarter final slump to that butch Spaniard, so it does at least have a happy winning anecdote attached to it.

The price is currently at £300. Which isn't very good - you could pick up a new one for much less than that.

(Via eBay)

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Putting personal exercise trainers on mobile devices is nothing new, and now Toshiba has jumped into the game with the Sportio.

They've teamed up with KDDI, the second largest mobile operator in Japan, to launch the phone featuring GPS, route mapping, calorie counter, and distance recording. It also has a two megapixel camera, mobile TV, video and music playback. Bluetooth. Internet and email.

It comes in red and orange models, and will be released in Japan around about now. No word on whether it will make it to the UK.

(Via Inventor Spot)

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The Olympics comes but every four years and given that the Olympic ideal itself is hanging by its last thread of credibility, we may as well embrace what the games are all about - merchandising. So, here for your pleasure are the very finest in Beijing 2008 must haves and oooh I wish I could affords.

1.)Lenovo 3000 V200 notebook - from the people who brought you the 2008 Olympic Torch come a whole range of torch-inspired products including this 12.1-inch, 120GB, 1.5 mega-pixel webcam sporting, widescreen laptop. They're only available through online auction and all proceeds go to the Lenovo Hope Fund. But if you really love the Olympic Torch that much, why didn't you just get your hands on one...

Nokia has decided to mark the continued drive to put personal navigation and mapping applications on their mobile handsets by sponsoring a rash of sporting events this year.

Apparently, this sponsorship will show just how easy it is to enhance your day-to-day journeys by using Nokia's navigation services.

The only way to make sure every refereeing decision is 100% correct is to replace the men in black with robots. The added benefit would be they could strike John Terry down with a laser gun whenever he oversteps the line between healthy aggression and dirty thugitude. Which is often.

Adidas isn't campaigning for robo-refs (yet), but they are doing their bit to help human referees get the contentious decisions right. Their new Teamgeist II ball has a device inside that uses The Power Of Electromagnetism to track its location at all times, and transmit that data to a pitchside computer.

The result: no more dodgy goalline decisions. In theory. It's being tested at the current FIFA World Club Cup in Japan. It sounds good to me, although if Adidas could focus their energies on designing a ball that automatically zooms into the net when kicked from the penalty spot by an England player, THAT would be real progress.

(via DVICE)

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A new service offers football fans the chance to win prizes for their predictions for UK Premiership, Champions League and Euro 2008 matches. They won't be gambling real money though: the site gives each user a virtual allowance of £1,000 a week to stake on their forecasts, using odds from real-world bookmakers.

You can set up your own fantasy league of friends and family on the site, while an overall monthly winner from the entire site gets £250 of Amazon gift certificates. BetUknow says it plans to add more features in the coming months, including the ability to bet on who'll be the next England manager.

People are already playing on the site, which reckons Newcastle fans are the best predictors, while Blackburn fans are the worst. Anyway, it's a good way to test your betting skills without actually losing your house and possessions, so well worth a look.

BetUknow website

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Swimming - very good for you and indeed your joints. And if you do it seriously, the Finis Lap Track could be a useful tool.

It's an underwater clock that counts the number of laps you swim, records the time for each lap and offers an estimate of the number of calories burned. Just hit the Lap Track to start and every time you finish a lap. There's also a lap countdown feature and a suction back to connect securely to any pool.

Available now for £39.

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