So I bought a cassette Walkman, even though this was the same year the Walkman included a line of MP3 players (again, steep prices).
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Unlike back then though, when a Walkman had a price tag of about $150, this special-edition Walkman will go on sale for $599 in Australia and €440/£400 in Europe come December.
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The Sony NW-A100TPS Walkman has a 40th anniversary logo printed on the back, and it comes with a specially designed case and package that pay homage to the original TPS-L2 Walkman.
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"Sony introduced the PSP as an interactive Walkman," he recalls.
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I like that they go from boomboxes to a Walkman.
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Should we break out the Walkman portable CD players again?
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What if he had a Walkman and listened to music?
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The Walkman continued to sell well even through the CD era.
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And make no mistake, the Walkman was designed mainly for music.
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That makes it more like an old Walkman than a smartphone.
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I'm pretty sure my Sony Walkman still works after 10 years.
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He had a Sony Walkman loaded with 73's Let's Dance.
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I just listened to it on a loop on my Walkman.
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Nine months later, I finally got to have my Walkman. Wow.
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That's fine; go listen to that stuff on your new Walkman.
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And yet, I couldn't stop playing the cassette on my Walkman.
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So it's a tunnel that wants to be a Sony Walkman.
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Something Walkman relatedSony will hold a press conference on September 5.
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That's why our earbuds are plugged into an iPhone, not a Walkman.
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Clay says yes — and then pops the next one into his walkman.
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It'll likely replace the 2015 Walkman, which currently sells for that price.
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Sony mixed music with this handset with the Walkman being a key feature.
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To celebrate the achievement, Sony has released a limited-edition Series A Walkman.
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It might have been like a Sony Walkman at the time [LG laughs].
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But during the 1980s, having a Walkman gave you all the cool points.
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She had a cutting-edge portable Walkman radio, in all its bulky glory.
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This is so real that my laptop spontaneously birthed a Walkman and Timbs.
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She then concocts a plan, seemingly inspired by a Walkman she sees at school.
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Terrell says his best friend growing up was Tom Petty's voice on a Walkman.
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I've had so many arguments about how can Quill power a walkman or zune.
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At one point, a man dances to the sound of music from his walkman.
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So, dressing like rotary phones, VHS or a walkman will throw them off completely.
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Selections include the Apple Mac computer, Snap Spectacles, the Sony Walkman, Gmail, and more.
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But despite having them on my Walkman, I didn't relate to any of them.
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I think it's time for Valentine's Day to go the way of the Walkman.
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Screenshot: WebcassetteReleased in 1979, the original Sony Walkman completely changed how people listened to music.
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" I remember blasting that song through my Sony Walkman that sported a sticker reading "SICK.
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Although the Walkman itself isn't brand spanking new, the Kingdom Hearts III design certainly is.
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There's a Walkman, of course, a Betamax tape, Sony's classic 3.5-inch blue floppy disk.
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Except my briefcase is a silver MP210 player, specifically, Sony's 22017 GB Hi-Res Walkman.
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"A Sony Walkman was one of the first music products I ever owned," Lamb said.
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The high-end Walkman range highlights Sony's focus on premium products in its audio business.
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This is the headphone-jack kind you've used ever since your first Walkman (or iPod).
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All that was ultimately found was Calico's broken Walkman on the side of the road.
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And what better way to listen to your mixtape than on your Walkman during lunch?
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Turn on that Walkman: We're looking back at what we loved and what we hated.
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Powered by Android, the new Sony Walkman comes with a slew of features for audiophiles.
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All the while, Blink-182 filled what felt like every Walkman, bedroom, and skate park.
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At IFA 2016, the company unveiled a new high-resolution Walkman audio player... that costs $3,200.
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They gave each other presents: drawings of flowers, or little crocheted satchels for holding a Walkman.
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The boombox was followed by the Sony Walkman, as music transformed into a personal transitory experience.
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He's listening to an enormous Walkman in full Freddy Kreuger makeup, and he barely looks up.
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The Walkman, one of Sony's flagship portable music players, can be seen in the tweet below.
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I would listen to it endlessly over and over again on a Walkman, walking around Boston.
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Surely remote cloud storage is a new audio format at least as much as the Walkman?
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I put on my headphones and played old tapes on my Walkman as I read. Prince.
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With the Walkman we can see a subtle but fundamental shift in the ideology of convenience.
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Consider the man of the early 1980s, strolling down the street with his Walkman and earphones.
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I was in a TV show recently and one of my fellow sunbaes [seniors] gave me a Walkman — there was a specific, raw sound that came out of that Walkman that put me at ease, and since then I've been interested in that old-school feel.
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But to properly enjoy the walkman, it required a set of headphones, attached of course, via wires.
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If you still have your Walkman, a cassette edition of both volumes is coming on July 14th.
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On these trips, I would take along my trusty Sony MD Walkman MZ-R50 MiniDisk (MD) player.
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES, from the Walkman to the iPhone, have tended to be adopted first by the young.
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Think: lava lamps in the '70s, the Walkman of the '80s, or Crystal Pepsi in the '90s.
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The new Walkman A226 comes in six new colors: grey, blue, red, purple, white, and lime green.
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It's really easy to turn your nose up, like when Sony re-released the Walkman last year.
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If you want it, the insanely high-end Walkman will be available "early next year" for $3,199.99.
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You might date the beginning of this period to the advent of the Sony Walkman in 1979.
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As the Walkman quickly became ubiquitous, deadly conflict between isolated individuals and the outside world became inevitable.
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Not since my wish list and Walkman days, have I despised so few nominees in this category.
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I'm sure I'd still be using a CD Walkman if I'd ever gotten one to begin with.
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Barratt recently gave his goddaughter a Walkman after she completed an important series of high school exams.
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And so, for example, I spent a week trying to recreate my dad's Walkman in 2360-D.
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This is the headphone-jack kind you've used ever since your first Walkman (or iPod — kids these days!).
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"When I was a kid, I used [the Sony] Walkman, but all [Sony's devices] are silo'd," Hui said.
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Even after knowing all this, I'd probably fail in trying to find the necessary parts in the Walkman.
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New York (CNN Business)That beaten up Walkman buried in your basement might be someone's hot new accessory.
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You can see the dramatic difference when compared to the boring, regular Walkman software here: Yeah, us either.
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Walkman is back at this year's CES, but decidedly less high-end — and a whole lot more colorful.
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I still have it, safe next to a beaten up Walkman to listen on, filed away for emergencies.
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Sony has built the perfect complement to your Apple Watch Edition: a $3,200 Walkman that's plated in gold.
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After all, this was the country that gave the world pocket calculators, the Sony Walkman and LED lights.
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If you want to go full retro mode, this special edition Walkman has a headphone jack as well.
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But why bring back something like the Walkman that's generally assumed to be worse than its technological descendants?
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Many of my favorite things as a child — like my Walkman, for example — required AA or AAA batteries.
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The Walkman came out and I really admired that, because making a tape recorder that doesn't record takes guts.
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This installation connects a TPS-L2 to a newer digital Walkman and Sony's excellent WH-1000XM3 noise-canceling headphones.
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He was, of course, handsome and shirtless, and wearing headphones that surely must have been attached to a Walkman.
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After dinner each night she would walk around the house for half an hour listening to her Sony Walkman.
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It's not a new product by any means — the first Walkman was released in 1979 and built for cassette players.
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Get Star-Lord's Walkman for $30 See Details Thanos is finally touching down on Earth to gather the Infinity Stones.
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"While we are all using iPhones, construction is still in the Walkman phase," says Ben van Berkel, a Dutch architect.
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He was walking around with the Walkman—no, with the CD player, the foam headphones, and a bag of CDs.
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Were your Walkman headphones glued to your ears, except when you were blasting your favorite cassettes on your boom box?
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Photo: NINM LabThere's no denying that Sony's Walkman was one of the most important gadgets of the past 40 years.
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While we already know that he loves his Walkman, there's another portable gadget that this speed demon would be into.
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He was a lawyer by trade and wanted something he could wear to keep his Walkman from snagging on doorknobs.
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His dad did plenty of business in Japan and brought back treasures, like Fox's Sony Boodo Khan Special Edition Walkman.
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Apparently one day Mero was listening to the track on his Walkman and doing graffiti when the cops pulled up.
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And if you're carrying a hi-res Sony Walkman or DAC around, you're probably part of the target market, too.
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If you want to go from the Sony Walkman to the iPod someone's not likely to come up with the iPod.
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It was basically an early kind of Sony Walkman, Miller said, which played cassette tapes loaded with the astronauts' favorite music.
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The Walkman isn't the only Kingdom Hearts III-inspired piece of audio hardware Sony has released to celebrate the game's introduction.
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The Kingdom Hearts III Walkman is available to purchase from Sony Japan's website for $16 US, and the headphones are $226.
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The Sony Walkman TPS-L2 was released 40 years ago this summer, forever changing the way the world listened to music.
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For a chunk of my childhood, I listened to the broadcast on a contraband Walkman because, you know, bedtimes and stuff.
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Sony has since released various iterations of its Walkman, but it's gone the extra mile with this special 40th anniversary edition.
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There will also be a cheaper version without any 40th anniversary branding called the Sony NW-A105 Walkman, the company said.
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I fretted that the 20143 Sony Walkman I received was also broken because no music emanated from it when I turned it on, but then I discovered that the Walkman merely demanded headphones before it would play (static-clogged radio stations or a tape of loon calls I bought at a thrift store for a quarter).
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The Walkman supports native DSD (Direct Stream Digital) audio files, which has a sample rate of 64 times that of CD quality.
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"With the advent of the Sony Walkman came the end of meeting people," a CBS Records vice president complained to the Post.
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This appears to be a straight-up rip off of the Sony Walkman but with some Aussie flare and double the size.
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This mock-walkman is actually a speaker that you can hook up your phone or MP3 player to with an audio jack.
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After watching him listen to music on a Walkman entirely unperturbed as people are gunned down all around him, I think not.
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The latest players to use the iconic Walkman brand, which dates back to 1979, comes in two models - the WM303Z and WM1A.
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A Walkman or off-brand equivalent was a common purchase for young people back in 2002, but buying mine felt extra special.
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The new Walkman has a copper body that's been plated in gold, which is meant to reduce contact resistance and magnetic interference.
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Simply pop them into your walkman, and you can listen to Firewatch's creators discuss various aspects of how the game was constructed.
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A criminal organization, the world's most amazing sanitation engineers, hacked into the government's Walkman, stealing their top-secret report on vintage sneakers.
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With its Trinitron televisions and Walkman portable tape players, Sony grabbed ahold of global consumers during Japan's dizzying economic rise decades ago.
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I listened to the cassette on my Walkman, jogging my memory to fill in the gaps of what happened between the songs.
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Sony debuted the Walkman in 1979, for example, but magnetic cassette technology had been around for more than a decade by then.
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But it was back in the days where you would have a Walkman, a skateboard—and those were my two go-to activities.
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In its heyday, the Walkman was as synonymous with portable music players as Kleenex became to tissue and Xerox was to copy machines.
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This month marks the 40th anniversary of Sony's first Walkman, the portable music player that would forever change the way we consume music.
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Rohrback, a fitness enthusiast, developed the workout in 1989 while strolling down Florida's Hollywood Broadwalk and listening to Motown music on her Walkman.
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BERLIN — Sony's announced a slew of new products including a $3,200 Walkman, "the best-sounding" noise-canceling headphones and two new Xperia smartphones.
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Things got a little weird for me in episode 703, when Mr. Porter asked Clay what he was listening to on his Walkman.
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Star-Lord's Walkman with Headphones - Retro Recordable Player — $2157.48 See Details Of course, no Star-Lord cosplay would be complete without a helmet.
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This is a super-high-end revision of the already-high-end Walkman that Sony introduced for playing lossless audio files last year.
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Many workers once could depend on defined-benefit pensions, but those plans — expensive for employers — have mostly gone the way of the Walkman.
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The 3.5mm headphone jack was popularized by the Sony Walkman in the 1970s and remained a key part of mobile devices until recently.
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I'm no stranger to seeing a bunch of awesome old Sony products on display, but Walkman in the Park was a little different.
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Walkman music players, Fitbit fitness trackers, GoPro cameras and many more such modern wonders are all vanishing or seemingly on their way out.
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When they arrived, each received a Sony Walkman, sat down, pressed play, and watched in silence as employees skated by, also wearing Sony Walkmans.
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To address this fear of isolation, the original Walkman featured a split jack and an orange button so you could listen with a friend.
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While Sony attempts to resurrect the Walkman brand as a high def media player, it's clear that music lovers prefer something more disk-like.
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FRESHeBUDS Pro Magnetic Bluetooth Earbuds give you the freedom of wireless listening with the durability of your mom's old school Walkman Fitness-Edition setup.
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Because in the time it took me to walk down that street, I could listen to around 3-4 songs on my CD walkman.
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Sony's marking tomorrow's long awaited release of Final Fantasy XV with a limited edition version of its A-Series Hi-Res Audio-friendly Walkman.
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But once the tracks were yours they'd be burned onto a mix CD for your walkman later, each name scribbled on disc in sharpie.
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But if you've seen Guardians of the Galaxy, you know Peter's favorite souvenir from Earth isn't a Star Wars toy – it's his precious Walkman.
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Each year, the nation which gave the world the bullet train, the Walkman and blue LED light showcases its latest, cutting-edge consumer technologies.
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All his musical references are before that, he's got a Walkman from 1983, even the suit that he made was from that time period.
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The ex-Walkman, current solo artist, and longtime Vedic astrologer is giving me one of his signature astrology readings based on my birth chart.
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If a parent is looking to feel particularly old, point your children to a Sony Walkman, behind the glass in the hall of communications.
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More curious than afraid, Ms. McNamara went to the alley where the body was found, and picked up shards of the victim's broken Walkman.
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That was before streaming, though, back when the album was the dominant consumption unit, with players — turntable, Walkman, Discman and so on — to match.
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It's frustration guaranteed, especially after the belt clip on your Walkman breaks off and you're forced to carry the ungainly device in your hand.
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With the 23th anniversary of the Walkman just past us, there's a possibility Sony could seize the moment to push out some nostalgia play.
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Andy Pastuszak, from Philadelphia, told me that his 16-year-old son recently asked for a Walkman, because all his friends are into tapes.
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I still remember scratching the cellophane off Hybrid Theory's jewel case, floundering around on a skateboard with a Meteora CD spinning interminably in my Walkman.
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Modern handheld technology, starting with the Walkman and progressing to the iPod and then modest smartphones, has made listening to music a pretty isolated experience.
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Right now the design is somewhat clunky– there's still a walkman-like battery pack to deal with and a FOV of 40 degrees at best.
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Writer Sharilyn Johnson posted that "Three Pistols" was her favorite because it reminded her of class breaks with her walkman at the University of Winnipeg.
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Thankfully, Sony is releasing the Walkman A-Series Final Fantasy XV Edition in Japan tomorrow starting at 33,880 yen ($300-ish) for a 16GB model.
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Sony managed to totally reinvent its Walkman brand at last year's Consumer Electronics Show with the ZX226, a $33,23 premium music player designed for audiophiles.
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With cassette tapes and the Walkman making a big comeback this year, I say it's time to herald in the return of the Talkboy too.
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This new 256GB Walkman glints beautifully under IFA's bright lights, and its hefty case is machined to a perfect finish, but its weight is overwhelming.
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Getting Sony's solid-copper, gold-plated Walkman along with its partnering headphones is a rather opulent approach to obtaining a matched set of audio gear.
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As an inveterate adolescent Walkman user, I found its use as an ersatz Proustian madeleine for Elliot's, Darlene's and Angela's childhoods to be astutely observed.
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Most people of my generation know Sony as the company of the Walkman and neon yellow headsets that we used to wear in the '80s.
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First released in 1979, the Sony TPS-L2 Walkman was the first truly portable personal cassette player and changed the way we listen to music.
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Forty meant pain-in-the-neck parents and other grown-ups grumbling about that irritating, nonmusical noise coming from my Walkman or my boom box.
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Innovations like the 1981 Walkman II -- barely bigger than a cassette tape -- and the 1984 Discman helped Sony stay on top of the portable music world.
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Sony has unveiled a 3,300 euro ($3,680) gold-plated Walkman music player as the Japanese electronics giant focuses on higher end products in its audio division.
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Being a high-spirited, borderline ADHD case, this meant a lot of agonizing afternoons for her as I pounded round our basement flat with my walkman.
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Sony also went gold with the aesthetic for its new flagship Walkman, which is one hefty chunk of solid copper covered with a beautiful gold veneer.
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This was a time long before the internet, when new music used to arrive in the suitcases and Walkman cassette decks of Indonesians returning from overseas.
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And it started, of course, with a giant statue of a yellow Sports Walkman FM. The layout of the exhibit was inspired by a skate park.
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Alongside the new earbuds, Sony also introduced new over-ear and on-ear headphones at IFA 2019 today along with, you guessed it, a new Walkman.
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The museum's broad definition of fashion includes acrylic nails and nail art, sun block, Revlon's Fire & Ice red lipstick, surgical masks, and even an original Sony Walkman.
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Around 1995 I owned a TV, a VHS player, a Walkman, a Discman, a cordless phone, a desktop computer, a CD player, a Hi-Fi and more.
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At IFA, Sony unveiled a 22,300 euro ($3,680) gold-plated Walkman music player as the Japanese electronics giant focuses on higher-end products in its audio division.
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Either way, JLab's Rewind headphones might be the solution for you, styled after the old-school, bright orange on-ear headphones that the original Walkman made famous.
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Cumberbatch adds the best gift he ever got growing up was his BMX bike, and the Michael Jackson Bad cassette, which came along a brand new walkman.
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The device is a follow-up to 22's Walkman A17, which brought lossless and high-resolution audio playback to an iPod Touch-like device for $300.
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We'd leave the house before dawn, and the night before, I'd stuff my backpack with books and a notepad and my Walkman, a set of clean underwear.
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Nearly two decades after his death, the very same tapes that spun in his Walkman are archived at the New York Public Library for The Performing Arts.
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When I talk about peak Sony, I'm not, of course, referring to the Sony that took over the world with products like the Walkman and the PlayStation.
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My friends and I would walk around the countryside, drunk and usually a little high, blasting songs on tinny Sony Walkman phones that we'd downloaded off LimeWire.
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And while smartphones have largely replaced the need for dedicated music players such as the Sony Walkman, the product still has its fair share of dedicated users.
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The original Teddy Ruxpin did things no toy had ever done before, capitalizing on a technology that had only been popularized a few years prior with Sony's Walkman.
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LDAC is already built into Sony's expensive Walkman players, its high-end wireless headphones (like the excellent noise-cancelling MDR-1000x), Sony-branded wireless speakers, and Xperia smartphones.
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But, really, this concept is more of a fashion accessory than a 21st century sequel to the Walkman — just like the cassette tapes that it will theoretically play.
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He had taken it to Africa with him when they filmed Ali and he was letting all of the people there listen to my album on his Walkman.
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We haven't seen any of these surface the next Walkman or PlayStation yet, but they represent a concerted effort from Sony to break away from commodified consumer electronics.
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Anonymous... When I talk about peak Sony, I'm not, of course, referring to the Sony that took over the world with products like the Walkman and the PlayStation.
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In that case, a man was shot three times while reaching his back pocket, not for a gun, as an officer feared, but to turn off his Walkman.
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The result was introduced in Japan on this day 40 years ago as the Sony Walkman, weighing in at less than a pound (the Pressman weighed 3.8 pounds).
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The Walkman, a portable cassette player that, for the first time, let us take our music with us without bothering our neighbors, hit the market on July 1, 1979.
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Similarly, when Louise grabs Thelma's headphones off her head and scares her, it's because Davis really had the volume on her Walkman up too high to hear her cue.
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Whether it's an update to the Xperia smartphone line or a new Hi-Res Walkman, Sony's new devices launched at CES have never gone on to become commercial blockbusters.
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I would listen to them all the time on my little stereo that sat on my bedside table, popping them in my Walkman whenever I was on the move.
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The headphones naturally support Sony's Hi-Res audio and the company's LDAC Bluetooth codec for an impressive audio offering when synced with a device like Sony's own Walkman line.
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As a kid at the time, I was still carrying around my Sony Walkman-esque CD player, praying for it not to skip if I moved the wrong way.
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The trailer mostly sets the tone, rather than explicitly laying out the story; you can see the heroes during an awkward elevator ride and there is, of course, a Walkman.
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My rucksack emblazoned with pin badges, sweat-bands under my shirt sleeves, and a CD Walkman plugged near-constantly into my ears, I had a place in the social strata.
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What better way to celebrate the passage of a decade or so spent waiting for the new installment of a popular video game franchise than with a commemorative Sony Walkman?
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I like that if you've got a bad Walkman and you're playing it, the radio will cut in and out of the music you're listening to—that's cool to me.
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Armed with a Walkman and a pair of headphones, he'd search the alleys and avenues of the Lower East Side and beyond for new sounds, sights, and means of expression.
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The people buying The Greatest Showman, I assume, either have young children, or can remember being confused by their kids' walkman and think Spotify is some sort of skin condition.
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"Times change, but John Mica went to Washington over 2202 years ago," Murphy says in a new TV ad that flashes images of a record player, boombox, Walkman and iPhone.
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The Walkman was created in 1979 to allow people to listen to cassette tapes on the go — it later became CD-compatible in the '90s, and known as a Discman.
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Stuffed into your Walkman is a compilation of smoothed-out Japanese disco, lugubriously low-rolling AOR funk, and Chris Rea classics, put together by NTS' newest recruit, Let's Get Yachts.
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Boomboxes and portable radios had been around for a while, but the Walkman made portable music private, ushering in a whole new era of people listening to music away from home.
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But the whole idea of taking music with you — that you could listen to your favorite songs on the go, without subjecting everyone nearby to your music — started with the Walkman.
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Per the video — a well-produced vintage ad — the Starcourt Mall is the new hawt place in Hawkins to do Jazzercise, sip Orange Julius, and listen to your cool-ass Walkman.
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The maker of the iconic Walkman and Trinitron TV fell behind the likes of Apple Inc in innovation after the release of the iPod in 2001 and the iPhone in 2007.
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With her Walkman cassette player and a Boston tape, Calico was heading out from her family's house in Rio Communities, New Mexico, on her regular bicycle route of roughly 35 miles.
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Case in point: the Ninm It's OK. It's sort of what a portable cassette player like an original Walkman would be if Sony continued to develop tape-based tech in 2019.
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Certainly the Sony Walkman deserves full credit for making music mobile, but it was the iPod that made it ubiquitous, truly moving music out of our houses and into the streets.
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When I went back to Iran, and I was listening to the CDs on my Walkman back then it was the first time I got introduced to Mogwai and Sigur Ros.
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It's how people in the Walkman, Discman, or iPod era might have imagined a portable VR device, for a world where we didn't already carry ubiquitous all-purpose computing devices everywhere.
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At the beginning, Henry is given a walkman and headphones (the game is set in the late '80s, after all), and as you explore the park you'll come across cassette tapes.
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One night in the dressing room, about an hour before the places call, I inserted my Torah portion tape into my Walkman, put on headphones and began chanting aloud in Hebrew.
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Still, Gibson has recalled that he first conceived of Neuromancer as he meandered through downtown Vancouver in the summer of 1981, listening to Joy Division on a freshly purchased Sony Walkman.
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While the player is reminiscent of a 1990s Walkman, it is a completely independent technology comprising multiple programs, which are experienced through a set of headphones and a pair of glasses.
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A more colorful take on the Walkman A17 of two years ago So you won't be downloading any apps on this gadget, as the real focus here is on high-res listening.
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They are also examples of the introversion of Japanese product designers, who nowadays tend to think more of the home market, and struggle to create world-beating ideas like the Sony Walkman.
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If we look at music, the way we experience music will potentially change due to AR in a similar way to the way music changed when recordings were invented, or the walkman.
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A standard version of the Walkman will also be available for $1,199.99, which will presumably have the new design but none of the fancy circuitry and coatings of the gold-plated model.
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ROKKASHO, Japan — More than 21 years ago, when its economy seemed invincible and the Sony Walkman was ubiquitous, Japan decided to build a recycling plant to turn nuclear waste into nuclear fuel.
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Speaking of old technologies, at our day care center there was one father — a big-shot professor — who was so brave that he did the worktime while wearing his Walkman (remember those?).
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Netflix describes the series as a quirky, funny coming of age story, and the trailer has a whole bunch of references to life in the '90s, including Walkman CD players and VHS tapes.
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As Engadget notes, the FF XV Walkman is the latest in a marketing bonanza around the Square Enix title that also includes, of all things, a $470,000 branded version of the Audi A8.
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That same season, we sneaked into seats behind home plate and my father went sprinting down a portal after a foul ball and came back with a mangled Walkman and a bruised knee.
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The Walkman wasn't the first of its kind, but it was the first affordable and manageable portable music player -- others like the German Stereobelt were too clunky and expensive, so they never took off.
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The Walkman would go on to see numerous hardware iterations over the years, including "Discman" CD models and MiniDisc players, as well as more modern portable media player devices that Sony still sells today.
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Authorities, summoned by Doel amid gathering rain clouds, scoured the area to no avail — though they did eventually discover a cassette tape and a piece of a Walkman which Doel identified as her daughter's.
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With no single song clocking over three minutes it's the the kind of music perfect for playing on your walkman as you snuck out of your parents' house for a night on the town.
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But on mine so far — don't laugh — is an album by the band Chicago, which was the only cassette tape I owned for some time after I first got a Walkman as a teenager.
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The little electronic things that did stuff for you — from transistor radios to the Walkman, iPods and GoPros and Fitbits — have been replaced by the "Thing That Does Everything" (better known as a smartphone).
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The cylindrical metal products made by Irie Koken Company more resemble Slinkys on steroids than the gee-whiz gadgetry for which Japan was once famous, like Sony's Walkman, Nintendo's Game Boy and Toyota's Prius.
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After years of losing ground to design-first rivals such as Apple and Dyson, Japanese companies are now trying to recover the processes and creative flair that produced iconic products such as the Walkman.
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I have heard Sony's gold-plated $3,200 Walkman, Neil Young's Pono Player, and Astell & Kern's own AK Jr. and AK100 II players, and not one of them has impressed me as much as the Kann.
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You could listen to music on cassettes through cheap plastic headphones while reading quotes from people who used that Walkman at the time, and for a second feel like you were back in the '80s.
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This might seem like something of a sea change for Sony, a company which has invented and reinvented its hardware business for generations with innovations like the Walkman, Blu-ray players, and full-frame mirrorless cameras.
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For an idea of what to expect for a 703-year-old, my playlist kicks off with Hanson's "Thinking of You," an opening Middle of Nowhere jam that I definitely wore out on my Sony Walkman.
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Ninm is selling the It's OK for an early Kickstarter price of $75, in either pink, white, or navy blue colors (the last of which feels specifically designed to evoke the original Sony Walkman TPS-L2).
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The motor, battery pack, and switch come from a Walkman that's torn apart, the ink obviously comes from the pen, the needle is made from the paper clip, and the rubber bands hold it all together.
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The new wireless NC headphones come in hues that match the new Walkman, and they contain digital noise canceling powered by what Sony calls "automatic AI" that analyzes the environmental sound to optimize the cancellation feature.
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The results will mark a significant turnaround for the conglomerate, once famed for leading the world in consumer gadgets such as its Walkman music player, but now finding a new focus on image sensors and gaming.
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Though there are a few signs of modernity — electric lights, motorized vehicles, a cellphone or two (but no signal), a Walkman — the feudal structure and pastoral rhythms of existence in this place, called Inviolata, seem timeless.
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My dad got two Walkman cassette players from the market, and I would borrow his tapes, so I could listen to my headphones and do my homework when he was watching TV or listening to the radio.
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Those old enough to own a 1980s or 1990s Sony Walkman may be shocked to find out that it&aposs going for up to £3123 ($1,142), while the Sony Discman for CDs can sell for £130 ($170).
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Last year we weren't exactly thrilled to see Sony dragging the Walkman brand—one of the most successful consumer electronics products of all time—through the mud by tacking it onto a $1,200 hi-res audio player.
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Once a market leader in consumer electronics, the maker of the Walkman and Trinitron TV fell behind the likes of Apple in innovation after the release of the iPod in 2001 and then the iPhone in 2007.
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It might be difficult to make sense of that fact, so we took a trip down memory lane, revisiting the Walkman and the pager, the United Colors of Benetton and the chokers, Naomi Campbell and Keanu Reeves.
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Yves Béhar, the noted product designer, remembers working with the nascent company: The idea was to make a full line of MP3-optimized music players—everything from a component stereo system to a small portable Walkman-type device.
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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 more apparent than ever.
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I remember when I was in high school during the pre-iPhone years, there were tons of different cellphones to choose — from the ubiquitous Motorola Razr to the music-centric Sony Ericsson Walkman to the QWERTY keyboard Sidekick.
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Sony, a company that has gone through a lot of ups and downs over the years, has repeatedly tried to revive the Walkman brand—a brand the iPod murdered more than 15 years ago—over and over again.
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The live album Alchemy was played excessively on my yellow, waterproof Walkman on family road trips to France and "Money for Nothing" was the first track my friends and I attempted to cover in the school's rehearsal room.
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From there, you can send the DSD copies on to your Hi-Res-playing Sony Walkman and enjoy a transition from the joys of fully-analog vinyl playback to lossless digital format without any MP3 intereference in between.
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The nation's economic struggles are in sharp contrast to its rapid rise during the 1980s, when Japan captivated the world with the Walkman, a portable music player for cassette tapes that was introduced by Tokyo-based Sony Corp.
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The "Backin' It Up" lyracist happened to have a "little Macaulay Culkin walkman where you could record yourself" (a Talkboy, which was made famous by Culkin's character Kevin McCallister in the second installment of the Home Alone series).
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An accompanying soft case that comes with it looks every bit like an old Walkman, so when you throw up that screensaver and snap the case closed it'll make you feel just like you're back in the '80s.
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Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), and Star-Lord (Pratt) all have brief moments to shine, fight, or crack wise, but Groot steals the show by firing up a Walkman and dancing throughout the entire thing.
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Convincing people to ditch their massive music collections and carry around a separate high-res player hasn't been easy for Sony, but surely high-res audio adoption will now skyrocket thanks to this new $3,680 gold-plated Walkman, right?
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The romance is enabled by the real estate: a vast, ramshackle stone house where Elio spends school vacations with his intellectual parents, eating leisurely meals on the terrace, surrounded by fruit trees and listening to his Walkman (it's 1983).
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The exultation of these Indian sagas reminded me of a high point in my own experience: years ago, I used to jog through Southern Manhattan, playing a tape of a great romantic symphony in on my Walkman cassette player.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)The Sony that many people think of, the electronics giant that made the Walkman, the Discman, the Trinitron, all those Vaios, and even the first water-resistant phone back in 2013, it doesn't really exist anymore.
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Bigger, skinnier flat screens, Blu-ray players galore and 4K, 8K and all the various other Ks. It's also been a fairly big show for Sony's offerings in the past, so maybe some news on the speaker and Walkman front.
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One of the reasons people were drawn to the Walkman — and what ultimately led to the success of the device — was the advertising leading up to the release, which suggested listening to music on-the-go could improve your life.
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It's not quite the powerhouse of a brand as it once was, but 40 years on, the changes the Walkman caused in our lives and in how we relate to both music and technology are still as relevant as ever.
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Click here to view original GIFPeople in prison are so damn resourceful that they can turn a pen, a Walkman, a couple of paper clips, a few rubber bands, and a set of batteries into a fully functional tattoo gun.
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So there won't be any confusing it for a slick smartphone, but the same is true of Sony's rather more expensive high-res Walkman and the Astell & Kern PMPs that the DP-X1 seems to have been partially modeled on.
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I didn't listen to them enough to give a fair assessment — Sony played a jazz track for me off the Walkman, and it sounded great — but they're supposed to be good enough to compete with Beats and Bose, selling for $399.99.
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A solid block of oxygen-free copper sits beneath the gold veneer of the Walkman, which can play practically every music format, and runs for 26 hours while playing back FLAC files or 11 hours with the highest-quality DSD files.
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Read more:16 unbelievable ways that life in the US has changed in the past 100 years30 things that might be obsolete by 2020The Walkman is turning 40 — here are 16 other gadgets from the last 50 years that are obsolete
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At the time, Abdurraqib was a teenager in Columbus, Ohio, where it would get unbearably cold during the winter; fiddling with the buttons on his Walkman to skip a song on the cassette entailed exposing his skin to the frigid air.
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Technological innovations in automated vehicle manufacturing and wildly popular consumer electronics like the Sony Walkman were establishing Japan as an economic powerhouse, and with their global influence at an all-time high, it was time for the people of Tokyo to celebrate.
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Nobody was asking for it, and it cost way too much money, but the sheer weirdness and spectacle of Sony having a Walkman and a TV that was as thin as the little knob on the bottom of a stick of ChapStick.
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Sony, developer of the Walkman portable cassette player and maker of the first compact disc player, hopes the headset will be a springboard to pull ahead of rivals in VR, gelling with the content portion of its business, specifically music and film.
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Sony's new Signature audio series consists of the gold-plated NW-WM1Z Walkman, which weighs in at 455g (1lb) and $14,200, the $2,300 MDR-Z1R closed-back headphones, and a desktop headphone amp whose price I haven't even dared to look up.
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In Shaun, it is played for laughs as the characters don't realize they're dealing with zombies, everything looks so familiar to them: teenagers banging their heads to their Walkman, the girl working at her grocery checkout job, just doing the same repetitive things.
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Sony's NW-A100TPS (doesn't exactly have the same ring, does it?) marks the company's latest attempt to revitalize the Walkman brand, and this time around they've seemed to have given up any pretense that this is anything more than a nostalgia cash grab.
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Although it wasn't set for release until the following year, with many technical details left unclear, Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Ken Kutaragi's description of the device as "the Walkman of the 24st century" served as an appropriate statement of intent.
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Ever since the iPod came along, and we realized we no longer had to walk around the streets clutching a walkman the size of a dinner plate, CDs have gradually disappeared from view, like porn mags or video rental stores or successful marriages.
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The world changed on July 1st, 1979: the day that Sony released the iconic Walkman TPS-L2, the first real portable music player that would revolutionize the way we listened to music in a way that no other device really had ever done before.
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Last November, the Super Soaker was named to the National Toy Hall of Fame, along with Twister and the puppet, and with good reason: Like Kleenex and Walkman, the Super Soaker has become so ubiquitous that it's now synonymous with pretty much any water gun.
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In "Happy as Lazzaro," Alice Rohrwacher travels back into a not-so-distant Italy where an extended family of farmers — like something out of Bruegel's "The Harvesters," save for the Walkman — toils in the tobacco fields of an absentee noblewoman known as the Cigarette Queen.
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I have always liked writing epilogues: putting Major Henry Rathbone into a mental asylum forty-six years after he shared Lincoln's box at Ford's Theatre; having Richard Nixon, two decades past his resignation, pushing the buttons of a Walkman in a Moscow hotel room.
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With a new consumer class hungry for CDs, cassettes, and video tapes to play on new devices like the Sony Walkman and Betamax VCR, record labels increasingly had the budget for more and more extravagant studio recordings, routinely flying in international musicians and hiring full symphony orchestras.
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Inventions like the iPod, Radio or streaming didn't really change the medium beyond adding quantity, but going from live to take-home (gramaphone) , or from at-home to out-and-about (walkman) changed the experience entirely because the context in which we experienced the music changed.
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I have vague recollections of appreciating them as a pre-teen in the early 00s; the raw, angsty excitement of the "Plug in Baby" opening riff in my Walkman headphones on the way to school; Matt Bellamy's strange little face plastered across the front of the NME.
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The home of iconic inventions such as the Walkman, the PlayStation and the Prius will also try once again to boost its image as being at the cutting edge of technology—a reputation which has been battered by fierce competition from America, China and South Korea.
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W.M. — Film: Call Me by Your Name Elio, the teenage protagonist of "Call Me by Your Name," may not be a prodigy, but he's a serious musician, spending part of each summer day in intense concentration as he transcribes what he hears on his Walkman onto staff paper.
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Ten years after Sony introduced the Walkman, Nintendo introduced the Game Boy; 10 years after that, Napster launched, transforming music from something physical into data, as Charlie Kaplan, the CEO of Cymbal, a now-dormant social platform for music to now something you don't own but pay to access, put it.
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Sony positioned the PSP as the Walkman of the future — an important pitch, considering how its lunch had just been comprehensively devoured by Apple's iPod — and even with a high price of $249, it was clear that this would be the first true competitor to Nintendo in the handheld gaming space.
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Read more:30 things that might be obsolete by 202011 pieces of technology experts say could be obsolete in a few decadesThe Walkman is turning 40 — here are 16 other gadgets from the last 50 years that are obsolete 13 places everyone will be flocking to for retirement in the 2020s
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The Sony Walkman had just been introduced, so he bought one; he lived in Vancouver, and when he explored the city at night, listening to Joy Division, he felt as though the music were being transmitted directly into his brain, where it could merge with his perceptions of skyscrapers and slums.
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There's certainly a bit of a Stranger Things vibe to the show — a band of kids in the woods, a walkman from the 1980s, and a supernatural component should be appealing to fans — but this trailer certainly sets us up for what looks like a more serious, and shall I say, darker show.
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As a result, in the case of mainstream artists especially, though they still release proper albums, those albums are often structured more like playlists—20 songs long, lots of different "sounds"—than the sort of self-contained thing you'd have listened to on a Walkman or bedroom CD player as a kid.
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A study from various University of California campuses that included surveys of more than 33,000 participants collected from 1988 to 2010 found that there was no increase in hearing loss among the adolescent sect over those 22 years, despite the ubiquity of Walkman-like devices and then portable CD and MP3 players.
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And although this is a random French movie from 40 years ago that features a Walkman, an incredibly cheesy song, and cheering French teens, this particular scene still captures better than most the propulsive need for private spaces amid chaos, and the way that a pair of headphones can accomplish it, alone or together.
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"It seems odd that every day we hear about a new smartphone app that lets you do something innovative, yet these modern-day mobile miracles don't enable a key function offered by a 1982 Sony Walkman," Pai said this morning, during a speech at a North American Broadcasters Association event, according to prepared remarks.
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By 14, I had moved from my pop-punk phase of listening to Good Charlotte, Gob and Sum 41 on my walkman—my clothes held together by obnoxiously large safety pins, my Converse scribed on with black marker, and rainbow socks—to black band T-shirts and rubber bracelets, bows in my hair, and skull jewelry.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads An outdated Walkman, a dust-filled VCR player, or a keyboard fizzled out from spilled sodas — such consumer electronics we no longer want are accepted with open arms at the Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse, where they're sent off to be properly recycled or refurbished, then sold, to be enjoyed by someone else.
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The specific evocation of those times seems to be the principal source of merriment for the audience, as when Patrick, in the opening sequence, speaks with proprietary pride of possessions like his Walkman and 30-inch-screen Sony TV. References to Donald Trump and "Les Misérables" — staples of 1980s culture that refuse to go away — draw the loudest laughter.
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Josie and the Pussycats sat in my Walkman for years, on rotation with pop-punks more widely accepted allumni – only they didn't chastise me for breaking their heart, they didn't hope I'd get a disease from snogging someone else and then burn to death in a plane crash, or fixate on whether or not I was wearing underwear.
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"One of the most fascinating areas for us to examine was garments that amplify and expand another kind of space, your metaphysical one, far beyond the volume that defines your physical self," Ms. Antonelli said, referring to wearable devices like the 1979 Sony Walkman and garments like the hoodie, whose interpretations have evolved radically from its original use as a humble piece of athletic wear.
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You would think that if this mode of listening was dangerous, there would be more hearing loss in the general population in the years after the introduction of a game-changing device, like the Walkman or iPod—that kids who grew up riding to school with AC/DC and Public Enemy or shuffling between Outkast and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs while jogging would have increased rates of hearing loss.
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It's what William Gibson imagined it would be, after wandering around Vancouver, listening to his new Walkman for the first time: "A consensual hallucination," he wrote in Neuromancer about cyberspace, The metaphors for the internet that I think of first—a series of tubes, a cloud—aren't even mentioned in Lo and Behold, Reveries Of A Connected World, Werner Herzog's new ten-chapter, two hour documentary about cyberspace.
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You have the next tape in the 220-cassette set rattling in a shorts pocket; in your other pocket is an iPhone, because obviously your Sony Walkman WM-FX303 is not connected to the internet, and you should probably be connected to the internet, lest during your bout of fitness the United States launches a war against Iceland or you're commanded to stop at Whole Foods for milk.
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The sequence of the selections grows increasingly more complicated and abstract: number 10, "fear" (an ominous granite burial chamber); number 22, "love" (a jade bead meant to attract spirits); number 41, "improve" (a Merino sheep, evolved in Spain by careful breeding); number 49, "think" (a manuscript of the poem "L'Infinito," handwritten by Giacomo Leopardi); number 68, "fascinate" (a 1950 bottle of Chanel No. 5); number 74, "trend" (a 1979 Sony Walkman); number 96, "rely" (a 2008 iPhone 3GS)… The hundredth object, chosen to symbolize "regenerate," is the visualization of a reproduced human heart, circling back to the origin of life itself.
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Bang & Olufsen Beoplay P6 portable speaker — £298.98 (list price £229.993) Bang & Olufsen Beopay A1 portable bluetooth speaker with microphone — £172.50 (list price £229.99) Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H4 wireless headphones — £189.00 (list price £249.00) Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H5 wireless bluetooth earbuds — £169.99 (list price £229.00) Beats by Dr. Dre Solo83 Wireless On-Ear Headphones — £149.99 (list price £249.95) Bose QuietComfort headphones — £129.94 (list price £289.95) Jam Audio Symphony wireless WiFi speaker — £69.99 (list price £149.99) Sony 3.1-inch Touch Display High Resolution Audio Walkman — £139.99 (list price £180.00) Sony Wireless Bluetooth Over-Ear Noise Cancelling headphones — £279.773 (list price £330.00) Ultimate Ears MEGABOOM Limited Edition Bluetooth/Wireless Speaker (Waterproof and Shockproof) — £139.94 (list price £249.99) Ultimate Ears ROLL 3093 Bluetooth Speaker Ultraportable with Floatie — £3083 (list price £3073) Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM Bluetooth Speaker Waterproof with Double-Up Connection — £3063 (list price £3053) There are some great deals on fragrances.
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