At the apex of the Walkman craze, 1987 to ’97, the number of people who reported that they walked for exercise rose by 30 percent. ioulex In 1979, when Sony introduced the Walkman—a 14-ounce ...

If you ask Google who invented the toaster many results will still turn up MacMasters’ name. But, according to the BBC, MacMasters was actually a student in 2012, not an eccentric 19th-century ...

In response, his company’s engineers dreamed up the Walkman, ordering 30,000 units for an initial production run. Forty-five years later, Sony has sold over 400 million Walkmans and incited a ...

However, while Collins might have played a big part in making the drum machine popular, he didn’t invent it. Leon Theremin and Henry Cowell invented the world’s first drum machine in 1930. Despite the ...

We’re looking at the Sony Walkman this week, a device that made its debut in North American 35 years ago this summer. At first, the Walkman went by different names in different countries. It was ...

Sony released the first MiniDisc player, the Sony Walkman MZ-1, in December 1992. It utilized their proprietary ATRAC lossless compression technology to store high-quality audio recordings on ...

Sony Walkman, the quintessential audio listening device of the 80s and early 90s has turned 45. The Walkman is one of the first portable cassette players to be invented. Walkmans were known for their ...

But with the original Sony Walkman – the Sony TPS-L2 – turning 45 years old today, it’s time to recognize it for what it is: the most iconic gadget of all time. If there’s one thing Gen Z ...

Who Invented the Mash-Up? While there are several instances of music releases that are key to forming what eventually became the mash-up, many point to singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson as recording ...

Who invented metalcore? Or who were the first metalcore bands that coined the genre? Tracking down the origins of "metallic hardcore," as the unabbreviated term initially was known, is a ...

“Walkman” was taken from both Pressman and ... By the time it entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986, Sony had invented, invaded, and conquered an entirely new consumer electronics ...