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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Sony Walkman’s tape deck once reigned supreme in the consumer electronics market as the quintessential music gadget for people on the move. Its affordability and compact size appealed to a diverse ...

Nostalgia combined with a curiosity among the young have created a hot market for old technology, including the once-beloved Sony Walkman. shaiith - stock.adobe.com Roll tape. Back during the late ...

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 ...

The electronics maker will release a new version of its revolutionary portable music player, it announced Friday at IFA 2019, a leading annual consumer electronics trade show in Berlin. First released ...

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. Before iPods, before iPhones, there was the ...