The Sony Walkman was not only a revolutionary device, it was revolutionary on a cultural scale. Until the 1970s, listening to music was considered to be a social activity. Handheld transistor radios ...
The big picture: Sony built on the success of the Walkman with the Discman, a portable CD player that was equally as popular with the era's youth and helped popularize compact discs as an audio format ...
The biography of Sony founder Akio Morita credits him with the concept of the portable music player, a device better known to Sony customers around the world as the Walkman. But the Japanese consumer ...
Sony today unveiled three new Walkman video MP3 models that for the first time in the United States support noise-canceling and Bluetooth technologies. All three NWZ-S710F, NWZ-A720 and NWZ-A820 ...
Sony unveiled a new Walkman on Tuesday that will deliver an exceptional audio experience—at an exceptionally high price. The new Sony ZX2 Walkman will set audiophiles back by $1,119.99, Sony revealed ...
The idea of a standalone music player might seem a little backward when even Apple spends little time and effort to promote its iconic iPod, but Sony reckons it has a leg up with a reimagined Walkman ...
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 lives is ...
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.