Everything old is new again: Wireless headphones
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by Scott Merrill on April 14, 2009

Sony Walkman
You kids with your fancy Bluetooth headsets and your fancy satellite radio and your portable music players magically transmitting stuff to other devices without any wires. You think you’re all so special. Well I got news for you, bub: wireless headphones were available on a Sony Walkman — you know, the kind that used cassette tapes — in 1988! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, hotshot!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to talk to my best friend through a tin can attached to a string…

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  • Lots of articles around lately just pointing out the extreme advancements, and sometimes brilliant foresight we’ve seen over th last 2 decades. it’s nice to know I’m not the only person who just steps back sometimes and says “d@mn!”…

    I really do think that we are living in the most exciting times possible.

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