Tech

Sony sold the first Walkman, the TPS-L2, in Japan in 1979, and within a few years headphones on the street stopped looking strange. The devices here changed a habit and still look right on a desk. Nintendo's Game Boy arrived in 1989. Sony's PlayStation launched in Japan in December 1994. Apple introduced the iPod in 2001, and Teenage Engineering, a small Stockholm studio, released the OP-1 synthesizer in 2011. Cameras get plenty of space, from the Polaroid SX-70 that Edwin Land unveiled in 1972 to the Leica M6, first made in 1984 and reissued in 2022, and the Fujifilm X100 with its hybrid viewfinder. Audio has its own thread, with Bang and Olufsen from Struer in Denmark and the Technics SL-1200 turntable that became a DJ standard. Each piece explains how the thing works and whether it is worth buying today.