Science news articles about 'walkman'

Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age -- the iPod.

(AP) -- Thirty years after revolutionizing portable music with the Walkman for playing cassette tapes, Sony is trying to master the digital media player with the X Series Walkman.

The Walkman outsold the iPod in Japan last week for the first time in four years, handing Japanese electronics giant Sony a rare victory over arch-rival Apple, a survey showed.

"Augmented reality" involves mixing the real world with computer-generated images. The result is a kind of visual Walkman, developed by a researcher in The Netherlands.

... used to track cows. But animal scientists have taken tracking several steps further with a Walkman-like headset that enables him to "whisper" wireless commands to cows to control their movements ...

... similar to findings 20 years ago when Walkman audio cassette players first came ... market, Portnuff said. "One of the concerns we have today is that while Walkmans back then operated on AA batteries ...

... more flexible electronics. This technology is already available in some gadgets – the new Sony walkman that was introduced earlier this summer and the Microsoft Zune HD music player released last week ...