In today’s world, smartphones are the go-to devices for remote music listening. But decades ago, the iconic Sony Walkman was the preferred choice for listening through headphones to music on walks, ...

Sony is sending its cassette tape Walkman into retirement in Japan as demand for a music player that was ground-breaking in its day dwindles to a tiny niche in the era of digital technology. Sony ...

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Before anyone had heard of iPods, there was another name just as synonymous with portable music. Walkman became the generic name for a generation of pocketable tape players. But there was only one ...

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Forty years later and Walkmans aren’t exactly popular to use anymore (outside of things like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy films, anyway), but the sea change that the Walkman caused in our lives is ...

For years, having a Walkman was sad. It meant being stuck in the era of tangly cassette tapes when everyone else had graduated to Discmans. Then iPods came along and blew everything else out of the ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. An estimated 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold around the world since they were introduced in ...

The Walkman was just as big a change in the way we listened to music as the iPod was in the early 2000s. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, ...

Cassette tapes have experienced an unlikely resurgence in recent years Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. An estimated 100 billion ...