Sony’s Walkman, which turns 35 years old on July ... but portable (AEG showed off the first reel-to-reel commercial recorder in 1935, dubbed the “Magnetophon”). It took half a century ...

Not until the Sony Walkman came along ... who built a prototype out of Sony’s Pressman cassette recorder in time for Ibuka’s next flight. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to ...

Sony eventually decided on “Walkman” as a play on the Sony Pressman, a mono cassette recorder the first Walkman prototype was based on. First released in Japan, it was a massive hit ...

But a generation ago, if you wanted to listen on the go, you very likely did it through a Sony Walkman ... a modified version of a compact cassette recorder used by journalists known as the ...

Sony dubbed it the Walkman, and it insisted it would revolutionize ... Shizuo Takashino and other developers took their Pressman—a bulky recorder meant for a niche market—and removed the ...

The Sony Walkman NWD-W273 arrived a decade ago. The waterproof and dustproof MP3 player featured a built-in speaker and microphone. The mobile device also included an FM radio and voice recorder. The ...

On July 1 of 1979, Sony first ... This original Walkman wasn’t the first portable tape player, but it was the first that didn’t have a record function. Portable cassette recorders had mostly ...

The Sony S-Series Walkman is pretty slim ... It features a built in FM Radio, and a built in voice recorder function that lets you record memos and also record direct from the built in FM tuner.

Sony has announced the latest update of its enduring stalwart, the Walkman, with some additions ... as well as voice recording and an additional FM recorder for capturing tunes from the radio.

Sony is claiming the S series is not only the thinnest Walkman ever, but it’s also ... The B series also feature a voice recorder, while the NWZ-B130F series includes an FM radio.