As an antidote to all the iTunes news today, here's a music player that takes a trip across the generations, from gramophone to record player to CD. From the tirelessly innovative Yanko Design we have ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, ...

Remember when the CD was cutting edge? It was unbreakable, unscratchable and you could eat your lunch off one. Or so we were told. It’s still hanging in there though – and being used in cutting-edge ...

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...