Portable audio players

digital audio cassette format developed by Sony

A boombox is a transistorized portable music player featuring one or two cassette tape players/recorders and AM/FM radio, generally with a carrying handle. Beginning in the mid-1990s, a CD player was often included. Sound is delivered through an amplifier and two or more integrated loudspeakers. The device is typically capable of receiving radio stations and playing recorded music on cassette tapes or compact discs. Many models are also capable of recording onto cassette. In the 1990s, some boomboxes were available with MiniDisc recorders and players. Designed for portability, boomboxes can be

portable device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files

thumb|Discman logo used by Sony until 2000. thumb|CD Walkman logo used from 1997 until 2000. Later Sony models bear the Walkman logo. Walkman is a Sony exclusive naming. thumb|Discman D-145 (1995) thumb|CD Walkman D-E330 (2002), with Walkman logo was a brand name used by Sony for their portable CD players. The first Discman, the Sony D-50 or D-5 (depending on region), was launched in 1984. The Sony brand name for Discman changed to CD Walkman, initially for Japanese lineups launched between October 1997 and March 1998, and then entirely in 2000. Discman and CD Walkman players were discontinue

portable audio player using an audiocassette player, battery power and in some cases an AM/FM radio

mobile device that allows the user to listen to recorded audio

Talkboy is a line of handheld voice recorder and sound novelty toys manufactured by Tiger Electronics in the 1990s. The brand began as a result of a promotional tie-in with the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; the most well-known product was the Deluxe Talkboy, a cassette recorder and player with a variable-speed voice changer that caused toy crazes over several holiday shopping seasons beginning in 1993.