After 30 years, Sony has announced that they will stop manufacturing and selling the venerable cassette Walkman. In a poetic twist, the official death of the Walkman lands on the iPod’s 9th ...

It was the invention that defined a generation. Portable and cool, the Sony Walkman was a must-have for any self-respecting teen in the 1980s. But now Sony has announced that it will no longer be ...

How about a round of applause for Sony for inventing the time machine! From what we hear, they’ve gone back in time to 1997, picked up a bunch of Sony engineers, brought them to 2006, and gave them ...

The big picture: Sony built on the success of the Walkman with the Discman, a portable CD player that was equally as popular with the era's youth and helped popularize compact discs as an audio format ...

The Sony Walkman was part of my childhood—I remember owning a yellow waterproof cassette player and feeling extremely cool circa fifth grade or so. Of course, with the advent of the iPod, the ubiquity ...

For many, nothing can beat the good ol' days and the experiences they bring, but modern technology allowed users to modernize these but still capture the retro vibes, including FiiO's CP13. Now, the ...

Sony introduced its Walkman portable cassette player thirty years ago this week, kicking off a revolution in the consumer electronics industry by changing the way people enjoy music. Until its ...

Before the iPod there was the Sony Walkman, a gadget so revolutionary that it quite literally changed the way we listened to music. Originally unveiled in 1979, the Walkman truly set music free by ...

With all the furore over Sony's exploding batteries, much-delayed and expensive PS3, aggressive hunting-down of import favourite Lik-Sang.com, does this pretty boring portable CD player indicate that ...

Be sure to bring an HB pencil... When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been 40 years since the first Sony Walkman hit shelves – we ...