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 effect," a term describing how portable music devices and headphones allow listeners to control their sonic environment. In 1986, "Walkman" was...
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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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List of effects (redirect from Effect (causality))
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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to most manufacturers having exited the industry during the 2010s. Sony Walkman continues to be in production and portable DVD and BD players, which may...
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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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Teresi has coauthored The Three Pound Universe and Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman? A Catalogue of Revolutionary Tools for Higher Consciousness. Teresi also...
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the credits, Yaar Naa Miley singing. St. Vincent Vincent wearing his old Walkman, singing along to the Bob Dylan song "Shelter From the Storm". He starts...
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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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electronics. Landmark products included the Trinitron color television, the Walkman portable audio player, and the co-development of the compact disc. Expanding...
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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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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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Clip Bacardi Elizabeth Edwards as Mary Ann Kowalski Claudia Udy as Helen Walkman John Hemphill as Ernie Bodine Don Lake as Deputy Barney Drum Cindy Valentine...
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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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died. Kyle Gatehouse as Richard, Donna's former neighbor, who died with a Walkman that only plays the album Purple Rain and witnessed his wife Linda murder...
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cartridge, and the compact cassette. The widespread popularity of Sony's Walkman was a factor that contributed to the vinyl's lessening usage in the 1980s...
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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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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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Sony Ericsson include the T610, the K800i (Cyber-shot branded), the W810 (Walkman-branded), and the Xperia arc S. Sony Ericsson was also the main user of...
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to groove as Bill and Toony take you back to 1979, where disco ruled, Walkmans were cool, and unforgettable TV shows and movies hit the spotlight! Featured...
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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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Music for Stowaways (category Walkman)
's first 'minor project', Music for Stowaways was inspired by the Sony Walkman (at the time known in the UK as the Sony Stowaway). Fascinated with how...
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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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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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wanted it for a long time. Before they part ways, Riley plugs Ellie's Walkman into the sound system of an electronics store, and the two dance on a display...
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S2CID 258765170. Donald Richie, "The Japanese Kiss," in Donald Richie, ed., Walkman, Manga, and Society: Essays on Contemporary Japanese Culture (Tokyo: Kirihara...
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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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