sony cd radio alarm clocks

The road to obscurity

The MiniDisc - launched by Sony in 1992 as a micro alternative to CDs and cassette tapes - occupies a slightly different category. Much loved by its purchasers, it never made the jump to "For example, the wireless radio was invented around 1900 and ...

Can Sony recapture the magic of the original Walkman?

Sony continued the Walkman brand through various iterations of audio technology. From the original cassette model in 1979, the Walkman brand later encompassed Digital Audio Tape (DAT) players, CD players, Minidisc (proprietary Sony digital format), and ...

Ivee Gains Traction on Crowdfunder: AI, IoT, Speech Recognition Home ...

Technology that listens! Life with ivee agrees with enthusiastic Crowdfunder investors and kickstarter backers: the AI, IoT, Speech Recognition Home Automation Control ivee Platform campaign has raised over $165K since opening on 1 December....

Steve Brookstein, The X Factor's first winner: 'Simon Cowell is irrelevant'

“TV always seemed to come before performing music,” is a recurrent grievance, and even after he'd won, his first thought the following morning when the alarm clock went off at dawn was: “I wasn't happy. I couldn't imagine a footballer doing GMTV the ...

Lumia 830 review: bringing the Icon down to the mid-range

A solid frame of metal surrounds the 830's squared-off body, interrupted by two pairs of thin plastic strips on the top and bottom edges (for the radio frequencies to pass through). At 139.4 x The Lumia's Glance Screen, which offers the time, date ...

UK's very first mobile call - how 1 minute changed communication

The ever-cheaper microchip was helping to usher in the era of the personal computer, the camcorder, the Walkman and the CD. Margaret Thatcher's privatisation boom was also in full swing. Her government was determined to break up the state monopolies ...

Intel: 'Taping a cellphone to your wrist is not what I'd call a wearable'

Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the Apple smartwatch at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California Apple's forthcoming entry into the market with its Apple Watch 'legitimised smartwatches'. Photograph: ZUMA/REX/ZUMA/REX. Stuart Dredge · @stuartdredge....

Why Are Alarm Clocks Still a Thing?

A 2011 survey from market research firm YouGov found that while 48 percent of respondents aged 16-34 said they used their phone as an alarm, another 38 percent said they use either a clock radio or an ... with built-in CD players or iPod docks, the ...