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    The Walkman effect is the way music listened to via headphones grants the listener more control over their environment. The term was coined by Shuhei Hosokawa...
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    Walkman (Japanese: ウォークマン, Hepburn: U~ōkuman), is a brand of portable audio players manufactured and marketed by Japanese company Sony since 1979. The...
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    source devices like cellphones and digital players. As a result of the Walkman effect, beginning in the 1980s, headphones started to be used in public places...
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  • effect (optical illusion) Wahlund effect (evolution) (population genetics) Walker effect (illusions of self-motion) (spatial misconception) Walkman effect...
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    The Walkman X series is a portable music player designed and released by Sony in Japan in 2009. It was marketed as a high-end, internet-enabled model...
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  • Studies Volume 23, Issue 4, pp. 525–535 Shuhei Hosokawa (1984), "The Walkman Effect", Popular Music 4:165-80 James Lastra (2000), "Fidelity Versus Intelligibility"...
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    October 1967, and they exploded as a mass-market medium after the first Walkman, the TPS-L2, went on sale on 1 July 1979, as cassettes provided portability...
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    iPod Touch on May 10, 2022, though certain flagship devices like the Sony Walkman are still in production. Portable DVD and BD players are still manufactured...
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  • 2022. Retrieved June 25, 2022. "音楽ダウンロード・音楽配信サイト mora ~WALKMAN®公式ミュージックストア~". mora ~WALKMAN®公式ミュージックストア~ (in Japanese). Archived from the original on...
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    it is not a huge drain on the battery. The Sony Ericsson W710 and W580 Walkman phones use embedded 2 axis MEMS inertial sensors to detect the steps a...
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    transistor radios were superseded initially by the boombox and the Sony Walkman, and later on by digitally-based devices with higher audio quality such...
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    On 7 July 2011, Sony announced that it would no longer ship MiniDisc Walkman products as of September 2011, effectively killing the format. On 1 February...
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    TR-55, the home video tape recorder CV-2000, the portable audio player Walkman, and the compact disc player CDP-101, embarked on diverse business ventures...
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  • audio players. Sony: MiniDisc Walkman supports gapless playback (including non-Sony Walkman MiniDisc players) CD Walkman (such as D-NE330) supports gapless...
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    "things" such as electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity are effectors that enable objects to exchange data (including data quality) through...
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    such as the Creative ZEN V, the iriver clix, the Zune HD and the Sony Walkman X Series. The Google and HTC Nexus One smartphone includes an AMOLED screen...
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  • Ravager; and Spencer Wilding plays a prison guard who confiscates Quill's Walkman. Canine actor Fred appears as Cosmo. Stephen Blackehart had a supporting...
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  • several countries), and ATRAC, the compression used in MiniDisc and some Walkman models. Psychoacoustics is based heavily on human anatomy, especially the...
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    requirement of headphones for proper reproduction. Particularly in pre-Walkman days, most consumers considered headphones an inconvenience, and were only...
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    and low level output jack. The 'Rockman' name has similarity to Sony's 'Walkman' which had been introduced to the US in 1980 as a breakthrough in portable...
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    miniaturization led to the development of the Sony Walkman, a pocket-sized cassette player introduced in 1979. The Walkman was the first personal music player and...
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  • return to Earth and meet the surviving Avengers. Peter Quill's Walkman is a Sony TPS-L2 Walkman given to Peter Quill by his mother, Meredith, when he was a...
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  • Stardust Crusaders, Joseph Joestar is seen listening to the song on his Walkman. Kutner, Jon; Leigh, Spencer (2010). 1,000 UK Number One Hits. Omnibus...
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  • software such as PlayStation Vita, Wii, digital audio players like Sony Walkman or SanDisk Clip, Android and BlackBerry devices, various in-dash car audio...
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  • waiting for a train while listening to "Freestyler" on his MiniDisc (Sony Walkman MZ-R55) player. When he enters the train, he walks down the aisle past...
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    for the launch of the A Series Walkman music player on 8 September 2005. A limited edition Franz Ferdinand-themed Walkman A Series player was released by...
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  • engineer Jeff Mock could put in his pocket. During that time the Sony Walkman was very popular and Jeff Mock called his portable board Renderman, leading...
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    showed Ronstadt in a vintage dress lying on shimmering satin sheets with a Walkman headset. At the time, Ronstadt received some chiding for both the album...
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    criticism and lower than expected Walkman sales, in 2004 Sony for the first time introduced native MP3 support to its Walkman players. There are also open...
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  • Territory in Australia is granted self-government. 1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman. 1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. 1983...
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