News tagged with tape recorders

Vinyl records make the world go around again

In the brave new world of MP3 players, compact discs are dying, cassettes are Stone Age, and old-fashioned vinyl records... they're back!

Technology / Other

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Sony chairman credited with developing CDs dies

(AP) -- Opera singer Norio Ohga complained about the quality of Sony tape recorders before he was hired by the company, developed the compact disc and championed its superior sound. Love of music steered ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

50 TB Per Tape Cartridge: Japanese Researchers Develop Ultra High Capacity Tape Media

Hitachi Maxell and Tokyo Institute of Technology today jointly announced the development of ultra high capacity tape media with ultra thin nano-structured magnetic film by using of facing targets sputtering ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Happy 30th birthday, Walkman

Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age -- the iPod.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Learning from lizards

The speedy lizard was streaking across the tabletop when suddenly one foot hit a slippery spot.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Can you say that on TV? The Supreme Court debates

(AP) -- In colorful give and take, the Supreme Court debated whether policing curse words and nudity on broadcast television makes sense in the cable era, one justice suggesting the policy is fast becoming ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

To children (but not adults) a rose by any other name is still a rose

New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Netflix sharing on Facebook may be coming to US

(AP) -- It may not be much longer before there's an easier way for Netflix's U.S. subscribers to share their tastes in movies on Facebook.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

2012: Magnetic pole reversal happens all the (geologic) time

Scientists understand that Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 15

Theft of data on 4M patients part of wider problem

The theft of a computer containing information on more than 4 million patients of a major Northern California health care provider may be among the largest breaches of health care data in recent years, but it's far from ...

Technology / Other

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why NHL goalies prefer wooden sticks?

Goalies in the National Hockey League overwhelmingly continue to use wooden sticks largely indistinguishable from those used decades ago by their mask-less predecessors.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Weightless US teachers eye giant science leap

"Excited," "nervous," "terrified" -- just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

False confessions may lead to more errors in evidence, a study shows

A man with a low IQ confesses to a gruesome crime. Confession in hand, the police send his blood to a lab to confirm that his blood type matches the semen found at the scene. It does not. The forensic examiner testifies later ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Steve Jobs 'Lost Interview' coming to theaters

(AP) -- Fans of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will get a chance to see previously unreleased interview footage of him when "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview" hits theaters later this month.

Technology / Business

created Nov 05, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 4


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