At the artist heavy Canvas @ Sony 2009 event in Japan the W Custom series of Walkmans and headphones has been unveiled.
While they might not be for public consumption, the designs from Aki Miyajima, Riya and Takashi Saito are pretty nice.
See the full range  here.
[Via JournalduGeek & Sony Japan]
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Teen favourite (maybe?) Hannah Montana, aka Miley Cyrus has got her own branded Sony Walkman E-Series out at the end of the week.
It’s a Sony & Disney collaboration and only a true cynic could say that the jewelry box gimmick’s not just a little bit nice, right?
It also comes with a branded case and some [...]

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Sony aren’t holding back in their PMPs as yet another Walkman is announced.
The NW-A840 is a skinny 7.2mm thick, has a 2.8 inch OLED display and up to 64GB of flash storage.
Also onboard is 720 x 480 resolution video out, digital noise cancellation and a battery life of 29 hours of continuous music or 9 [...]

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The accidental listing of the Sony S-Series Walkman on French retail site Materiel has shed some more light on the specs and looks.
The 8GB NWZ-S544 and 16GB MWZ0S545 feature a 2.4-inch QVGA widescreen display, stereo speakers, a microphone, FM tuner, a Li-ion battery that offers up to 42 hours or audio or 6.5 hours of [...]

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New mics aren’t scarce but few are quite as interesting looking as Logitec’s LIC-WMREC03P (for Sony Walkmans) and LIC-iREC03P (for iPods).
The speaker crossing is apparently the XY technique of placing two mics together pointing in different directions, giving excellent field separation while eliminating phase problems.
The speakers have a frequency response of 20Hz to 16kHz, [...]

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The never-ending conveyor belt of Sony PMPs has dropped off the E-Series Video MP3 player in Europe.
The players come in black and red with a five band EQ, support for rights-managed WMA and WMV files and an FM radio tuner with one-touch recording.
It doesn’t sport OLED but does have a touch of Disney about it.
 
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The Sony Walkman hits its thirtieth birthday today and in a fitting tribute Gizmodo have put together their top ten designs.
Elsewhere, an iPod Touch-toting kid has given up it all up to step back in time and give tape a try for the day and told the BBC about his experience with typical teenage grumbling. [...]

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Sony Japan have announced their latest in the long line of B-Series Walkmans, the NWZ-B142F. The latest addition to the series comes with their new ZAPPIN feature which allows you to select tracks while it plays five-second clips from the middle of each one.
As well as ZAPPIN, Sony’s 26-gram PMP comes with 2GB of onboard [...]

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