After 30 years, Sony has announced that they will stop manufacturing and selling the venerable cassette Walkman. In a poetic twist, the official death of the Walkman lands on the iPod’s 9th ...

Spencer Richardson, who's bringing rehabbed music technology back into circulation, is finding that millennials are increasingly drawn to analog devices in an era when everything else disappears into ...

Kudos to Gizmodo for being the first to make this connection. Sony just said it will finally stop manufacturing tape players. It's also (give or take a day) the 9th anniversary of the iPod's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. The cassette tape was created in the 1960s and became a household ...

If you’re looking for new technology with a kick of nostalgia, Sony has your back. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Walkman, Sony is releasing a modern day version based on the classic ...

San Diego – Sony might be getting around to ship its last cassette Walkman in Japan, but the device will live on elsewhere around the world for awhile, according to multiple press reports. The company ...

A cassette Walkman may now be nothing more than a puzzling artifact to some, but for those of a certain age it was the gadget of the day. Alas, it has long since been surpassed by other, more portable ...

Here's something we didn't think we would see launched at CES 2024: a cassette player. FiiO, a brand we normally associate with cutting-edge DACs and desktop streamers (such as the new R9), has gone ...

Originally marketed in 1979, the first Sony Walkman turns 35 this year, and it’s about as outmoded as a technology can be these days. That’s why it’s understandable that the kids in this delightful ...

Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. Just when cassette tapes appeared to be making a comeback, a worldwide shortage of gamma ...

UNDATED According to gizmodo.com, in a poetic twist, the official death of the Walkman lands on the iPod's ninth anniversary. Sony announced it will stop manufacturing the Walkman on October 22, 2010.