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Akio Morita positioned Walkman in the youth market, emphasized youth, vitality, and fashion, and created a headset culture. In February 1980, he began to sell Walkman to the world, and in November 1980, he began to use the non-standard Japanese and English brands globally. The Walkman has sold more than 250 million units worldwide.
Nobutoshi Kihara (木原 信敏 Kihara Nobutoshi, 14 October 1926 – 13 February 2011) was an engineer at Sony, best known for his work on the original Walkman cassette-tape player in the 1970s and was commonly called Mr. Walkman in the press.
To most people who lived through the 90s, the walkman is an antiquated but still ordinary object. For those born after the advent of CDs and digital music players, however, the device is a ...
A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.
Image credits: jl__57 #9. Clothes that are made well with a “slow fashion” vs “fast fashion” mission in mind. My favorite clothing brand sells their wool button downs for about $120.
It’s not surprising to find a few cars on this list of the world’s most expensive things. In 2018, a 1962 red Ferrari GTO sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s auction in Monterey for $48. ...
It was the first Walkman digital music player to not require SonicStage software - allowing simple drag and drop [38] - but it has been shorn of the ability to play back ATRAC and AAC music files. The Auto-Transfer option allowed this Walkman to search for all the MP3 files on the PC and then copy these files directly to the Walkman.
The Walkman DD was an early series in Sony's Walkman line of portable audio cassette players. The "DD" stood for 'disc drive', with the unit's main motor being directly coupled to the 'disc' of the capstan flywheel assembly while lying perpendicular to it within the unit. This feature was later shared with the Walkman Professional series.