Ever since Sony introduced me to portable music with its iconic Walkman series, my enormous collection of tunes has never been far from reach. I've been through tape cassette players, mini-Disc and CD ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Dec. 14, 2004 - Digital Mind Corporation (DMC), the California based technology company that recently released the world's first 100GB portable audio player, today announced the ...

Slow file transfers; mediocre battery life; doesn't support protected audio files or to-go services such as Napster or Rhapsody. Bottom line: As a basic, inexpensive digital music player for the gym, ...

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 ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. For many people, the transition from buying digital music ...

One of the constants in consumer electronics is that designers will try to put as many features into a single device as possible, whether it’s a Walkman with a radio tuner or a new class of devices ...

We already know that Amazon.com has run a music store for years. Heck, along with dozens of books, toys, gizmos, and other material goods, I’ve purchased CDs, streamed music samples, and downloaded ...

In the cross-over between the era of tapes into that of MP3s, you’d see quite a few of those special cassette tapes that were ...

Sony’s Walkman portable audio cassette player in 1979 improved on the transistor radio by allowing people to take their preferred music wherever they went (engineer Nobutoshi Kihara supposedly ...

There are dozens of devices out there that can play digital video these days: laptops, PDAs, Smartphones, portable DVD players, and personal media players. Each of these devices have their strengths ...

I got my first taste of the digital counterculture in college. The iPod — only a few years old at that point — was a far cry from today’s iPhone, but a sign of inexplicable style and wealth. I had ...