gadgets Replica walkman that you put your phone inside Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets The Sony Walkman is 40 years old Rob Beschizza

experimental music How to make extra-long, strange, and trippy tape loops inside a standard cassette Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

Games Weird walkman-style cassette players that played Tetris and Blackjack Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

television Friday Night Videos is a blast from the past Gail Sherman

Boing Boing Shop It's cool dad summer, and this $30 clip-on fan can help make it happen! Boing Boing's Shop

Delightful Creatures 1980's Sony Walkman ad features a vibing monkey Popkin

science fiction Get the free online edition of the classic 1986 cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades Mark Frauenfelder

Japan What is the deal with Japan's smile merchants? Matt Alt

music Watch Native American rock band Redbone perform "Come out and get your love" (1974) Elías Villoro

Audio Explore a library of disappearing and extinct sounds at Obsolete Sounds Rusty Blazenhoff

If you spent $399.99 on Apple stock instead of an iPod in 2001, you'd now have (Update: $160K) Andrew Yi

music "100 Best Songs of 1982," the year when today's pop music was born David Pescovitz

soviet design Watch this 1983 TV commercial for a craptastic Soviet Walkman knock-off Mark Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics Hear how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's BLUE BOX worked and why 2600 is such an iconic number for hacking. Ethan Persoff

Heavy Metal Paranoid at 50: Celebrating the balm for "beaten-down listeners" in Black Sabbath's classic record Gareth Branwyn

Japan Teardown of iconic Sony TR-63 transistor radio from 1957 Mark Frauenfelder

This magnetic media enthusiast built an 8-track tape "walkman" David Pescovitz