What' s the best Sony Walkman? Perhaps one of the following models. Check out this history of the once-popular consumer product.

Sony celebrated the Walkman's birthday last week by introducing two new portable music players, a Walkman with a 20-GB hard drive, and the Vaio Pocket music player with a 40-GB hard drive, both ...

[Daniel Rojas] cleverly solved this problem by directly adding Bluetooth functionality to a Sony MZ-R500 MiniDisc Walkman. MiniDisc Walkmen are famously compact devices, so adding a full circuit ...

There were also Walkman MiniDisc players, and though MiniDisc was popular in Japan the format flopped in the US. But all good things must come to an end.

And speaking of battery life, Hi-MD Walkman players let music fans make the most of all that capacity by providing up to 30 hours of continuous playback using just one "AA" battery (MZ-NH600D and ...

From Sony's first models, through to that yellow one you could take in the shower, the Walkman range was THE gadget of the 80s and 90s, and we all wanted one like the kids want smartphones today.

It's the end of an era for Sony's MiniDisc Walkman player, an era you may not have realized was underway. It doesn't matter now anyway, because Sony is reportedly stopping shipments of its soon-to ...

This comes years after everyone picked up an iPod or other MP3 player and forgot all about Sony’s optical format, first launched in 1992. Sad news for what was a great format back in the day—I ...

Today, Sony introduced its 2005 lineup of MiniDisc (MD) digital audio players, ranging from the playback-only MZ-DN430 ($99.99) to the MZ-DH10P, the first MD player with a built-in digital camera ...

Sony Walkman, the Apple iPhone of its day is enjoying a nostalgia-fueled renaissance, as collectors and buyers scour the internet and street markets of Asia to find the most pristine models of the ...

The pocket cassette players and accompanying on-ear headphones that Sony launched in 1979 changed the way we consume music, morphing to MiniDisc and CD formats before going digital 20 years after ...