#Sony

The Sony Walkman

A cassette player with headphones and no speaker, which sounded absurd until everybody had one.

The Discman And The Anti-Skip Button

A portable CD player that skipped if you walked, ran on batteries for two hours, and was carried perfectly flat like a waiter.

MiniDisc

Rewritable, skip-proof, and you could name every track. Sony's finest format and a commercial disappointment.

The PlayStation 2

Sony's machine that was cheap enough to buy for the DVD playback and then quietly became the games console everyone owned.