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more about #sonywalkman Complexified: Rosa, we love you even more when you show us gadget porn. #sonygadgetteardowns more » Software_Goddess: I love gadget porn! It makes me want to get my soldering iron and do naughty things. #sonygadgetteardowns more » OMG! Ponies!: Didn't do so hot. I must've gotten audio-induced long-term memory loss from spending my teenage years blasting my ears with Madonna, Prince, Michael ... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Soon the Super Karate Monkey Death car would park in my space. But was Jimmy scared? A thousand times no. Jimmy had fancy plans, and pants to match... more » Denver_80203: Switches kept breaking off the sports walkman. But it had a very satisfying suction release sound when you opened it. more » dingus: Where's the Sports Walkman with the solar powered alarm clock on the front for some reason? more » frigg: interesting how little the walkman evolved over 3 decades compared to the rapid annual evolution of the iPod. Looking forward to the 30 year iPod retr... more » turi319: I like pizza pie, I like macaroni. But what I love is My First Sony. AHHHH! more » tok3ninja: *sigh* if only Youtube wasn't on lockdown at work. Sonofabitch. more » Dr. H. F. Danger: Lets not forget about the 1983 Walkman Sears commercial. more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Is that Brad Pitt in the ad on the lower right? Not that I look for Brad Pitt, mind you. more » ChaosCon: Speaking of 'horrendously' old tech - I'm just now learnint FORTRAN at work, and I really REAAAAAAAAALLY want to find an old punch card reader, just t... more » Kaiser-Machead: I still love my bright yellow Sony Sport Walkman, with its waterproof buttons that have yet to fail in responsiveness, its little LED that showed lapt... more » OMG! Ponies!: I want to see him try to operate an IBM MC/ST that uses magnetic cards. Or change the golfball on a Selectric. I want to see him boot up a Compaq Po... more » badhatharry: Was it one of the cheap ones that only had a fast forward button and you had to flip the tape over to rewind it? Because if so, I wonder how long tha... more » khetti: Very eloquent for a 13-year-old, although not unexpected coming from the BBC. I wonder how poorly the article had been written if it was an American o... more » Hello Mister Walrus: To be fair, his confusion is probably exaggerated by journalism. It would be a pretty boring story if they just said he managed to figure everything out. more » BeerManMike: Now watch frustration ensue as you give a curious 15 year old boy a pentium 2 computer and a 56k modem for a couple months. more » OMG! Ponies!: No fair. He got earbuds. In my day, we had crappy headphones with the leaky foam covers and the aluminum band. Personally, I'm surprised his soft, ... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Next you'll tell me this kid doesn't know that data used to be stored one cassette tapes as well. more » -
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Sony Gadgets Of All Ages Stripped Down And Photographed
iFixIt and Wired got together to cajole people into tearing down their favorite Sony products. And while autopsies usually give me the creeps, I'll admit that seeing this hardware spread apart left me hot under the collar. More » -
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Take the Walkman 30th Birthday Quiz
How much do you know about the most celebrated personal stereo of all time, one that is today turning the big Three Oh? A lot? OK, hell, let's see what you got: More » -
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Notable and Crazy Sony Cassette Walkman Editions
Sony's cassette tape Walkman came to life in many shapes and forms through the years. Here are a few of the great, the important and sometimes plain weird Walkman models.
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Great Sony Walkman TV and Print Ads of the 1980s
To commemorate the Sony Walkman's 30th birthday, here are the trippy ads Sony used to promote it in the '80s. Noble monkeys, off-key kids and sweet-toothed senseis—where's that f'd up sense of humor now, Sony? More » -
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When a 13-year-old From 2009 Uses a Walkman For a Week
Here's what happens when you give a 13-year-old from 2009 a Sony Walkman—the tape kind—and ask him to figure it out without any outside help: incredible confusion. More » -
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Sony's X-Series OLED Walkman Pricing and Details Confirmed: $299 for 16GB, $399 for 32GB
Sony's OLED, Wi-Fi Walkman has been stickered with $299 and $399 prices for the 16GB an 32GB models, respectively. Now it's confirmed, along with details like the presence of Slacker radio service and YouTube. UPDATED More » -
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Sony X1000 OLED Walkman to Hit UK Next Month for ~$300
Sony's slick-looking X1000 Walkman line popped up for preorder on Amazon UK with a release window of 2-5 weeks. That means we should be seeing the touchscreen, OLED player before the end of March. More » -
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Video of Sony's NWZ-X1000 OLED Walkman In Action
Folks from Stuff Magazine (it soldiers on!) were in Japan recently, and they got a chance to film this Attenborough-esque nature video of Sony's new X-series MP3 Walkman caught in the wild. More » -
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Sony Walkman X-Series Is Surfable, Touchable and Shuts Up the World Around You
Sony's Walkman NWZ-X1000 features an OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi and built-in noise cancellation. The X-series Walkman seems like a very impressive piece of hardware. More » -
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Sony W-Series Walkman Has Got No Strings, And No Display
Sony has gone all Pinocchio on us with its sportsy W-series Walkman MP3 player, eschewing cords for an all-in-one music player/earbud ensemble. $70 for 2GB of storage and 12 hours of playback time. More » -
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At Gizmodo Gallery: The Original Sony Walkman
If you needed something to listen to while you're playing with the Lego Death Star at Gizmodo Gallery, how about the original Sony Walkman? That's right, old tapey himself is going to be there, FFing and RWing it up for your enjoyment. Curious what kinda battery this thing takes? What input/outputs it has? Come down and take a look. More »
