Happy 30th birthday Sony Walkman. You might’ve lost out a lot to the iPod but I’ll never forget your chunky cassette playing ’80s magic or your “can’t play the last track on a really full CD” Discman. So, by way of small celebration here are ten images inspired by your greatness. 1. Hard-wired SonyEricsson Walkman phone. Neatness doesn’t come as standard 2. Great, let’s stick a huge replica of a Walkman phone on top of a metal stand because… well, because we can, OK? Read more »
The IEEE has just awarded Philips its Milestone Award to mark its role in the development of the compact disc. The first “Pinkeltje” prototype was created 30 years ago (8th March 1979) with the CD becoming commercially available in 1982. While CDs might be going out of fashion now, it’s this technology that has underpinned all other optical disc formats, including the latest Blu-ray disc. Over 3.5 billion audio CD players, 3 billion CD-ROM drives and 240 billion discs have been sold since then. Read more »
