This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it here. Before that though (AKA today), we have another mission: to bathe in the glory of the portable CD ...

We're trying to remember the last time we even listened to a CD, let alone coughed up actual money for one, but if you still swing that way, next month in Japan Sony is releasing the D-NE20 CD Walkman ...

I have a collection of CDs that I still prefer to listen to on disc rather than on a phone or computer. It’s a combination of things: visibility for browsing the collection, simplicity, artwork and ...

How about a round of applause for Sony for inventing the time machine! From what we hear, they’ve gone back in time to 1997, picked up a bunch of Sony engineers, brought them to 2006, and gave them ...

Starting in the 1980s, Sony produced the Discman, a CD version of its popular cassette Walkman player. I had a Sony Discman or two in the 1990s, and they were pretty boring—typically clamshell-shaped ...

Ninm Lab is obsessed with retro gadgets, from cameras to cassette decks, and its latest project — the Playdisc — reimagines the humble MP3 player as a digital version of the mixtape (or mixed tape for ...

Sony introduced its Walkman portable cassette player thirty years ago this week, kicking off a revolution in the consumer electronics industry by changing the way people enjoy music. Until its ...