Texas Instruments beat them to market with a transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, in 1954, but in 1955, Sony produced the TR ... The radios were on sale for about 19,000 yen (the TR-1 cost about ...

When you think of Sony, you probably think of a technology ... it was not feasible to use the crude devices in a radio.

The end of the 1950s ushered in the second age of novelty radios. “Advances in plastics and the invention of the transistor allowed novelty radios ... and one soon finds lots of vintage novelty radios ...

Our experts at Business2Community have compiled the key dates and products in the history of Sony, all the way from its first transistor radio to its industry-leading products. Sony belongs to a ...

The reimagined Quad 33 preamplifier and 303 stereo power amplifier, originally launched in the 1960s, were teased in ...

Sound is 50% off the movie-watching experience. You can have the best picture in the world available, but it won’t leave it’s ...

MBW glances over some of the key factors in Sony’s willingness to spend over $2 billion on three recent catalog ...

Normally, the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones are $400 but select colorways are on sale for less only $310. LE SSERAFIM isn't the ...

Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired ...

The Beatles' console used to record 'Abbey Road' has been restored and is going on sale. The unique "one-off" EMI TG12345 ...

If you've always wanted an OLED TV, check out Best Buy's offer for the 65-inch Sony Bravia XR A80L 4K OLED TV. A $700 ...

All handheld radios, as well as desktop radios, use transistors, both discrete as well as contained in chips. The transistor radio was one of the first consumer devices that employed solid state ...