With the decline of cassette tapes, newer versions of the Walkman were designed to accommodate CDs, MiniDisks, and even flash memory. This allowed people to enjoy their music on the go, no matter what ...

[Daniel Rojas] cleverly solved this problem by directly adding Bluetooth functionality to a Sony MZ-R500 MiniDisc Walkman. MiniDisc Walkmen are famously compact devices, so adding a full circuit ...

and Sony's stopping production of the MiniDisk compatible Walkman will certainly knock in the last nail in the coffin. I must admit, I've only ever really used a MiniDisk one time in my life.

It's the end of an era for Sony's MiniDisc Walkman player, an era you may not have realized was underway. It doesn't matter now anyway, because Sony is reportedly stopping shipments of its soon-to ...

Sony’s Walkman, which turns 35 years old on July ... feature iterations and media shifts to alternative formats like the MiniDisc (sold under the Walkman brand), has gone on to sell nearly ...

Sony has taken the decision to stop manufacturing the MiniDisc Walkman, a product which first appeared on the market back in 1992. A report by Nikkei on Friday said that shipments would cease this ...

I stuck by the Walkman through its relatively short-lived but much-loved MiniDisc period, and I have fonder memories of my Sony Ericsson W880i Walkman phone than any smartphone I’ve owned since.

The first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan on July 1 ... of the company's success in Japan and Europe with its digital MiniDisc player, said Doherty, Envisioneering Group's research director.

But a generation ago, if you wanted to listen on the go, you very likely did it through a Sony Walkman ... such as DAT (Digital Audio Tape), MiniDisc and “Duo” Memory Stick.

Okay, so the portable Walkman for MiniDiscs is gone but ... might be phased out as well in the near future. The MiniDisc was introduced by Sony in 1992 as a digital alternative to the analog ...

Forty years later and Walkmans aren’t exactly popular to use anymore (outside of things like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy films, anyway), but the sea change that the Walkman caused in our ...

The pocket cassette players and accompanying on-ear headphones that Sony launched ... morphing to MiniDisc and CD formats before going digital 20 years after the launch of the first Walkman.