If you didn't stand up to salute the solid black slabbiness that is the new Sony Ericsson W902, we've got something else that may excite you. It's the new Sony Ericsson W595 -- another Walkman handset ...

The Sony Walkman was not only a revolutionary device, it was revolutionary on a cultural scale. Until the 1970s, listening to music was considered to be a social activity. Handheld transistor radios ...

Back in 1979, Sony cofounder Masaru Ibuka was looking for a way to listen to classical music on long-haul flights. In response, his company’s engineers dreamed up the Walkman, ordering 30,000 units ...

Sony has unveiled its latest line of Walkman MP3 players here at IFA in Berlin -- the top-end S series, the E series and the entry-level B series. The S series is easily the most exciting and offers ...

Sony is rolling out a fresh addition to its Walkman family, the NW-A306. This new model comes 44 years after Sony released the original Walkman, the TPS-L2, which changed how we listen to music: since ...

At the apex of the Walkman craze, 1987 to ’97, the number of people who reported that they walked for exercise rose by 30 percent. ioulex In 1979, when Sony introduced the Walkman—a 14-ounce cassette ...

Before smartphones, iPods or iTunes, there was the Sony Walkman, which went on sale four decades ago. More than 400 million have been sold over the years. Before iPods, before iPhones, there was the ...

SOON AFTER its 1979 launch, Sony’s Walkman was already seen as much more than a trendy audio player. Crucially, it became an escape hatch. Whenever I cradled my Walkman as a kid, it transported me to ...

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For most people, MiniDisc is just one of countless media formats that became obsolete when music went online. Not so for MiniDisc enthusiasts, many of whom still use a MiniDisc deck at home and a ...

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 ...