One such gadget was the Sony CFS-C7 Chord Machine Boombox Portable Cassette Tape Recorder, released in 1982 and only in Japan. Groove to the beat of your own synthesized drum thingy ...

Witness the remarkable restoration of a classic Sony stereo radio cassette boombox, a nostalgic piece of audio history, as it’s brought back to life. This video follows the entire transformation ...

Earlier in 2025, We Are Rewind announced a metal Walkman-like portable player that can play cassettes over Bluetooth or with the best wired headphones, and then followed it up with the We Are Rewind ...

The portable cassette player, especially Sony’s Walkman model, and the boombox were a combined statement of both. Whether you matched one with roller skates or with an Adidas tracksuit, a ...

Now - as with most tech of the time, it seems - it’s back, thanks to a jazzed-up revival from the nostalgia freaks at We Are Rewind. Having previously rebooted the Walkman concept with the WE-001, the ...

Vinyl is making a comeback, but for all intents and purposes the reign of cassette tapes is long since over, right? Perhaps not, if Sony has anything to say about it. At today's International ...

Sony on Wednesday unveiled a new clock radio and boombox that feature iPod docks. Both are scheduled to be available at retail stores in August for “about $100,” according to the company.

If you show a cassette tape to almost anyone under the age of about 25 and ask them what they think it does, they’ll stare blankly back at you like you’ve just asked them to open a tin of ...

The Sony Walkman TPS-L2 portable stereo cassette player came out 40 years ago. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg/Getty Images There will also be a cheaper version without any 40th anniversary branding called ...

On July 1, 1979, Sony Corp. introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a 14 ounce, blue-and-silver, portable cassette player with chunky buttons, headphones and a leather case.

Then, in 1963, the Philips compact cassette became the worldwide standard for portable tape. At first it was meant just for voice recording. It wasn't until the '70s that the cassette was finally ...