Sony’s Walkman, which turns 35 years old on July 1, 2014, ... (EJECT), slipping the tiny tape-spooled piece of plastic from one magnetic door to another, and pushing PLAY. ...

At the time of the Sony Walkman TPS-L2's launch in 1979, Sony co-founder Akio Morita said: “This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day. They ...

Sony Walkman Wikipedia At least it outlived disco. By today's standards, the Walkman was clunky. The plastic tape player required frequent replacing of two AA batteries. There was no shuffle ...

Sony used a rare-earth magnet in place of the much heavier ferrite magnets that would have graced earlier designs, and paired it with a polyester diaphragm over an open-backed rigid plastic frame.

In the late 1970s, music was loud, shared, and rooted in place — until Sony’s Walkman turned it into something personal and ...

The Sony Walkman revolutionized the way we listen to music. The clunky, battery-sucking device took the boombox off our shoulders and attached sandwich-sized plastic tape players to our belts and ...

Sony’s music players have traditionally been known for extremely good audio quality, beating many smartphone music players hands down. Which is a good start. The 40th anniversary Walkman without ...

Sony’s Walkman Z Series ($210, as of June 1, 2012) ... The purple-blue plastic on the back of the Walkman provides a nice contrast to the shiny black of the rest of the device.

The Walkman was different. I had a ghetto blaster (Bar Mitzvah gift in 1983) from Panasonic that was huge. And very heavy. I made mixtapes with it. I used those tapes in my Sony Walkman (I had the ...

Sony says the Walkman can last up to 26 hours if you use a music streaming app. In our tests, with the Walkman audio level at 50%, the battery discharged at a rate of 10% every 60 minutes while ...

But Sony will have to pack all of the sentimentality of the Walkman into a modern device. That means Sony has a big pair of Air Jordans to fill with the NW-A306. The subtle quirkiness of legacy ...

The last time Sony was worth this much on the stock market, Bill Clinton was president and the PlayStation 2 was about to debut on American store shelves. It’s been a rough past two and a half ...