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 ...

The Walkman was just as big a change in the way we listened to music as the iPod was in the early 2000s. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

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 ...

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 ...

When you want to hear music while you're out, you just pop in the earbuds (or just tap them because they're embedded in your ears already), and summon the song on an app like Spotify or Apple Music ...

Sony is resurrecting the Walkman 35 years after the original. The ZX-1 is carved from a block of aluminum and sells for $700. The WSJ's Ramy Inocencio talks to Steve Durose from Fitch Ratings on ...

Sony Corporation introduced the Walkman in July of 1979. It went on to sell more than 200 million of the portable cassette players. An entire generation became addicted to headphones and mix tapes.

The first portable electronics gadget we ever had was a tape recorder, though we both remember the portable record player in a suitcase. Later, we both had Sony Walkmans. Did you know they’re still ...