The greatest disaster with regards to the Walkman Player is its design. The design's thick licorice like band does not look flattering on all people. The cable has a very glaring appearance on your head.

This is too bad, seeing as to how it's an innovative design in other aspects. When you are not using the device, the two pieces of the Walkman snap together with a magnetic assembly leaving behind a heart-shaped look, thanks to a special kink in the cable. The unit can then be placed on the included docking stand that connects to a computer via USB. The docking stand itself uses a revolutionary suction grip that keeps itself planted on your desk or work surface, making it easy to just drop your walkman onto the stand for charging or song transfers.

The controls on the Wearable Walkman are understandably unusual. Placed under the right earpiece for access with your thumb, the Wearable Walkman features a mechanical volume rocker, a switch to toggle Shuffle Mode, and a dial to control playback. The dial can be swiped to skip through tracks, and clicking on the dial initiates the play/pause function.

As there is no screen on the Walkman to access your song library, Sony has implemented a new Zappin™ technology to navigate through songs. Pressing and holding on the dial causes the player to enter a special mode where it begins to play snippets of songs. When you hear the song you want, you simply hold down the dial again to resume normal playback.

Audio quality is obviously a given with Sony. The Wearable Walkman features a set of inner-ear EX Headphones that give you clean and superb audio. The player includes support for AAC/MP3/WMA and has an easy drag and drop interface for song transfers.

Although Sony has taken some admirable risks in the step on innovation, I can't help but feel that the Wearable Walkman is lacking in many ways.

First of all, the limited control that a user has over song playback can be quite irritating after a while. Even with Zappin™, it can be cumbersome for a user to go in and select a different track (This problem could be settled to a small extend with an introduction of a playlist system which currently doesn't exist on the Wearable Walkman). Next, the limited 2 GB capacity is a mouse compared to what Apple offers with its smallest capacity iPod touch that boasts 16 GB of storage, minimum. Although the capacity could have inherent limitations from the small size of the player, we already live in an age where we are starting to see the rise of 16GB thumb-drives.

Sony has reached a level of quality that sets them among the best in the market. While their magnetic suction-power connectors (similar to Apple's Mag-Safe) offer a clever wow-factor to their design, their overly hip Zappin™ and thick-cabled wrap around designs prevent the wearable music player from being the accessible to a larger market. It can be tiresome to keep hearing a computer generated voice saying "Zappin" every time you enter or leave the mode. Coupled with the S$129 price tag and the small capacity, I would recommend the Wearable Walkman only if you need a secondary personal music device during very physical activities.

For me personally, unless the cord proves to be extremely irritating, I would still stick to my iPhone thank you very much. If the need be, an iPhone in the pocket and a pair of Bluetooth Headphones is still better then shelling money for the Walkman. At least I still have access to my whole music library.