This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it here. Before that though (AKA today), we have another mission: to bathe in the glory of the portable CD ...

Fiio grabbed plenty of attention with its reboot of the classic portable cassette player earlier in 2024, so it’s no surprise to see that the company’s latest product is another blast from the past: ...

Ran into something interesting tonight while shopping at Kmart. They now have portable walkman style CD players that will do up to 84 hours of continuous playtime (pretty darned impressive in my book) ...

The big picture: Sony built on the success of the Walkman with the Discman, a portable CD player that was equally as popular with the era's youth and helped popularize compact discs as an audio format ...

There are currently no ways to turn back time, but FiiO has since brought back renowned experiences of the past with its lineup of new retro technologies, now debuting the DM13, a modern CD player.

Its casing of brushed aluminum alloy, with textured black leather embedded in the back plate, gives the unit a high-quality and sturdy feel; it weighs about half a pound. Sony says the new Walkman ...

With the glut of portable audio and media players out these days, it really takes a special product to catch our attention. Something unique, something a little off-the-wall, and something that ...

Gen X drives the vintage tech revival with CD players, Walkmans, and retro cameras—because streaming feels like shouting into a void. Discover why owning physical media is making a serious comeback.

There have been a lot of questionable portable music player formats over the years (does anyone remember the Iomega HipZip?), but Terence Eden’s homebrew Walkman that plays entire albums off of ...

I have a collection of CDs that I still prefer to listen to on disc rather than on a phone or computer. It’s a combination of things: visibility for browsing the collection, simplicity, artwork and ...

It was 40 years ago today that Sony, not Apple, revolutionized the way we listen to music. The Walkman, a portable cassette player that, for the first time, let us take our music with us without ...