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Pulling up some Walkman/Discman designs from Sony, Aiwa, Panasonic (etc) just makes me want to buy one.

Somewhere after the IPhone 4/5, phone designs started to homogenize into that mostly large screen, rounded corners, and mostly became uninteresting.

Business laptops have mostly settled on the MacBook design, Gaming laptops are still coming in weird interesting designs:

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Zephyrus-i7-7700HQ-Processor-Pro...

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I agree, a lot of the old designs really had something special. I was looking through an old emergency backpack recently and found an Aiwa HS-SP590, similar to a Walkman. For quite a few years it was kind of boring as tech, but now it's so unique that my kids are very intrigued. I'm thinking I'll put something else in the backpack and have a play. (Ideally there weren't any batteries left inside...)

I seem to recall the Aiwas tended to have EQ on the front, sometimes lined up diagonally. My first "Walkman" was a Toshiba (so technically it wasn't a Walkman) model from 1984, one of the first that came with a FM/AM cassette that you had to insert where the tape usually would go. It also was one of the first models with auto-reverse. This little guy: http://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/project/toshiba-kt-as1-bra...

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