Olympus invented the microcassette recorder in 1969, but these devices still help people capture audio information. Some microcassette recorders even have voice activation features that trigger ...

The kooky geniuses at Teenage Engineering are back with a new gadget that is guaranteed to make you salivate until its price tag smacks you back to reality. The maker of drool-worthy synthesizers just ...

ALMATY, Nov 25 (Reuters) - For two decades, Andrei Klimenko has been amassing a collection of Soviet-era reel-to-reel tape recorders for a small museum he runs in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city.

Videotape still stores the intellectual assets of several generations of television production. Commercial videotape recording began in the late 1950s. Though audio recordings on acetate strips had ...

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