MetaFilter posts tagged with walkman

Walkmans eat tapes. And they were delicious.

starzero — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:39:09 -0800

Meet Scott Campbell, a 13 year old swapping his MP3 player for a Sony Walkman cassette player for a week. Since Sony released the Walkman 30 years ago, there have been several new generations of the player for many different types of media: CDs, MiniDiscs, harddisks, flashdrives and today there's even Walkman mobile phones. But for most people the iPod of the 80s plays tapes only.

Pocket Calculator Show

serazin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:14:53 -0800

Pocket Calculator Show. via: Beware of Blog

The hills (and everything else) are alive...

2or3whiskeysodas — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:43:09 -0800

The idea of treating everyday, ambient noise as music is not terribly new, but Noah Vawter's device turns ambient sounds into music (in a somewhat more traditional sense of the word):

Ambient Addition is a Walkman with binaural microphones. A tiny Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip analyzes the microphone's sound and superimposes a layer of harmony and rhythm on top of the listener's world.

Meet the New Walkman

jpoulos — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:02:48 -0800

Meet the new Walkman. 20GB HD, 25 minutes of cache for skip-free playing. Works with Sony's Connect music service. Sharp-looking little player.

ShinyPlastic25thAnniversaryFilter

turbodog — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:36:50 -0800

The Walkman turns 25: the Sony Walkman hit the streets on July 1, 1979. History, photos and more at the Walkman Museum.

For those unsatisfied with a mini-iPod

synecdoche — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:24:20 -0800

Sony to Introduce HI-MD Walkman For the people who were unsatisfied with Apple's iPod mini, this might provide an alternative. Sony is going to release a HI-MD Walkman, that uses a 1 gigabyte minidisc. As minidisc.org points out, it will also allow transferring data from the minidisc to a computer, and not just the other way around.