Up to Sony's invention of Walkman, music was primarily a shared experience. "After the Walkman, music could be silence to all but the listener, cocooned within a personal soundscape, which spooled on analog cassette tape" - New Yorker writes on the 40th anniversary of the genius gadget being shared with the world - "The Walkman wasn’t the end of meeting people, but it paved the way for surviving an unthinkable era in which we would find ourselves unable to meet at all".

Sony has unveiled a limited edition Walkman to mark the device’s 40th anniversary – the new NW-A100TPS looks identical to the cassette-gadget, but the tape is simply appearing as a nifty graphic on a 3.6″ inch display. The new digital device holds thousands of songs, has a 26-hour battery life, boasts 16GB of storage and […]