The Walkman wasn’t a giant leap forward in engineering: magnetic cassette technology had been around since 1963, when the Netherlands-based electronics firm Philips first created it for use by ...

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.

On July 1 of 1979, Sony first began to sell the TPS-L2, first known as the Soundabout and soon rechristened the Walkman. This original Walkman wasn’t the first portable tape player, but it was ...

The Walkman débuted in Japan, in 1979, to near silence. But, within a year and a half, Sony would produce and sell two million of them. Photograph from Alamy ...

The Sony first Walkman (TPS-L2) was born: The original Sony Walkman TPS-L2, launched in 1979, revolutionized personal audio with its compact design and dual headphone jacks.

The first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979, introducing both a new concept in music and a device that would become an icon of modern pop culture -- a personal, portable stereo ...

For a tour, check CNET's photo gallery of the Anrdoid-powered Walkman. "This is our first try to make convergence between Android products and our own technology," said Toshimichi Nagashima ...

I have two used Minidisc players. The first is playback only, hence I boughtthe next one I saw at a garage sale. The bluetooth transmitters I’ve bought are pretty small.

The Sony Walkman may no longer be relevant in today's digital-first content media consumption era, but the product line has cemented itself as an iconic staple of tech gadget history.

This isn't the first time we've seen old audio tech brought back to life. Fiio brought the Walkman back at CES last month. But while I'm someone who loves retro tech, I'm also old enough to have ...