Sony's iconic personal stereo music player, the Walkman, turns 35 on July 1, 2014.

But with the original Sony Walkman – the Sony TPS-L2 – turning 45 years old today, it’s time to recognize it for what it is: the most iconic gadget of all time.

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.

Sony's Z Series Tegra 2-powered Walkman is great for multimedia playback and gaming, as long as you're okay with the built in storage.

Sony has announced it has finally retired the Walkman cassette tape player, marking the end of one of the most successful consumer gadgets of all time. Sony Walkman Wikipedia At least it outlived ...

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 ...

Sony has announced a new Walkman to celebrate the gadget’s fortieth anniversary. It’s snappily called the NW-A100TPS Walkman and here’s all you need to know about it.

Who needs a Walkman when you've got a smartphone already? Perhaps you're asking the wrong question.

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 ...

Most of the electronics we use on a regular basis aren't designed to be thrown in a swimming pool and survive. Sony's $98 NWZ-W273 Walkman Sports MP3 Player, was. This fact, along with their ...

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

The cassette Walkman revival is real. From the FiiO CP13 to Gen Z mixtape culture, retro audio is back — hiss, heartbreak, and all.