Sony Walkman
Walkman
- Date
- 1979 · confidence high
- Place
- Sony, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Sony (Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka, Nobutoshi Kihara)
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A portable cassette player with light headphones, without a speaker or recording function. It created the experience of personal music on the move.
What it led to
- The individual soundtrack of urban life and auditory isolation
- The Discman, the iPod and streaming on mobile
- Japanese dominance of consumer electronics in the eighties
Built on
Made possible
- iPod and iTunes Store2001-2003
- wireless headphones