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A picture of The Toot-a-Loop Radio or Panasonic R-72. The Toot-a-Loop Radio or Panasonic R-72 was a novelty radio made by Panasonic Japan in the early 1970s. This radio was designed to be wrapped around the wrist. It also came with stickers for customizing the unit.
Generally speaking, they are portable, employing internal or replaceable batteries, equipped with a 3.5 mm headphone jack which can be used for headphones or to connect to a boombox, shelf stereo system, or connect to car audio and home stereos wired or via a wireless connection such as Bluetooth.
The first boombox was developed by the inventor of the audio compact cassette, Philips of the Netherlands.Their first 'Radiorecorder' was released in 1966. The Philips innovation was the first time that radio broadcasts could be recorded onto cassette tapes without the cables or microphones that previous stand-alone cassette tape recorders required.
An early portable player, a Sony Discman model D-121. A portable CD player is a portable audio player used to play compact discs. Portable CD players are powered by batteries and they have a 1/8" headphone jack into which the user plugs a pair of headphones. The first portable CD player released was the D-50 by Sony. [58]
The Panasonic plant will bring 4,000-plus jobs paying about $50,000 each to the region, The Star reported. The factory and its employees will be developing batteries that power electric vehicles.
Sony's MiniDisc was one of two rival digital systems introduced in 1992 that were intended to replace the Philips Compact Cassette analog audio tape system: the other was the Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), created by Philips and Matsushita (now Panasonic).
Panasonic was the principal sponsor of the now-defunct Toyota Racing Formula One team. Hiro Matsushita in 1991. Panasonic was a primary sponsor of Toyota's Formula One program, Panasonic Toyota Racing. [168] Hiro Matsushita, grandson of the company founder, is a former race car driver who ran a company overseeing sponsorship arrangements for ...
Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC) designs, engineers, manufactures, sells and installs customized in-flight entertainment and communications devices to airlines worldwide. It is a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation of North America , the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation , and operates under the umbrella of the ...