iPod shower adapter sorely needs a karaoke mic

(Credit: Gearlog)

This is a travesty. A total travesty. Gearlog has tracked down a good-looking, well-priced ($19.99) device that lets you listen to your iPod in the shower, but it's missing something. Sure, it'll keep your iPod nice and dry, and it even comes with a clock and a radio, but there's no microphone. All issues of personal hygiene aside, the only real purpose of a shower is to provide a singing venue in which tone-deafness can be slightly tempered by running water. I mean, duh, everybody knows that. And if you're enough of a music addict to install waterproof iPod speakers in your bathroom, there had better darn well be a way to enhance the repertoire with your own lovely voice.

I'm not the only one who feels this way. Brian Lam of Gizmodo agrees, naming the shower karaoke machine the nonexistent gadget he wants the most.

And on a final note, the lack of a mic in this shower iPod is particularly disturbing to us because here at Crave, we take karaoke very seriously. I'm not going to give the names of the Cravers with whom I partook in a rocking rendition of some Talking Heads classics at a karaoke bar last month, but I'll tell you this much: We're good. (No, it's not on YouTube. Sorry.)

[Nelly Ramos]

iPod shower adapter

Aside from the hygiene issue, the shower time should be for relaxation and I don't see how the karaoke thing will improve the process. As a matter of fact it will increase the cost of the equipment. Otherwise, many people do not linger at the shower for the sake of soap opera, so why bother?

[Ryo Hazuki]

Do you know what irony is?

I bet your excuse for the iPod not having FM radio is something similiar like "noone uses it anyway" (like people in this only use iPod features) and end with the same words: "why bother?".

[MCrisci]

Ipod in Shower

All seriousness aside now, I think they were somewhat tongue-in-cheek. However, adding amicrophone might be a "cute" option to the iPod in the shower. The interesting part is, the shower gives you a natural echo ambiance you pay lots for in the recording studio. No kidding. Brick hallways, too.