Five years ago today, the engineer and inventor who revolutionized audio equipment and changed the music industry forever died.

If you ever made – or listened to – a mixtape, please press the pause button for a few moments to mark the passage of Lou Ottens, the engineer who oversaw the development of the cassette tape. The ...

The above contraption may look like the kind of cassette player bygone teens used to use to create mix tapes, but it's not -- it's a Raspberry Pi-powered Spotify speaker with NFC-based playlists. Its ...

Santa came through. A VCR was waiting for you under the Christmas tree. Is it Beta or VHS? Or did you get one of the new 8 mm. camcorders? Welcome to the wonderful world of video cassette recorders.

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at the age of 94, his family has confirmed to CNN. They said the inventor died at his home in Duizel, the Netherlands, on Saturday. His ...

When the engineers at Phillips introduced the first audio cassette recorder in 1962, they couldn’t possibly have imagined where the next three decades would take the fledgling tape medium. Originally ...

Tascam knows some musicians pine for the 'warm' quality of cassette recordings, and it's willing to effectively resurrect dead technology to meet their needs. The company has introduced a 424 Studio ...

You should probably hope you haven’t seen [Techmoan’s] cassette recorder before. That’s because it is a Neal interview recorder that was mainly used by police to tape interrogations. This one was ...

For those of us who lived in the capitalist west during the Cold War, there remains a fascination to this day about the Other Side. The propaganda we were fed as kids matched theirs in describing the ...