Attention, the 160 million or so owners of an Apple iPod MP3 player: take out those white earbuds and listen for a second. Before the iPod became ubiquitous — way, way before — there was the Walkman.

Ahh the Walkman, that trusty rectangular hunk of plastic that us '90s kids lugged everywhere with us. For many of my generation, the Walkman was the only piece of tech — no, the only essential — we ...

Perhaps you’ve already picked up a vintage turntable and you’re looking for a retro music fix that’s a little more portable. Sure, you could buy an old Walkman, or you could check out its latest, ...

We take portable music for granted these days. Any commuter in any big city in the world is more likely than not to have a pair of earbuds or headphones on as they walk, bike, or ride to their ...

Before smartphones there were iPods and other portable media players. But before all of them, there was the Sony Walkman, a portable cassette player that let you take your music with you. Sony’s ...

The first ever Walkman was created for Sony's co-founder Masaru Ibuka as a favor. Ibuka wanted something portable so he could listen to opera on a long flight, so the engineers cobbled something ...

The Walkman, introduced by Sony in 1979, transformed portable music with its mobility and convenience. Despite initial variations in global branding, the term “Walkman” became synonymous with personal ...

Sony is rolling out a fresh addition to its Walkman family, the NW-A306. This new model comes 44 years after Sony released the original Walkman, the TPS-L2, which changed how we listen to music: since ...