iPod is not a recent innovation

By Thomas Henwood · September 22, 2005 ·

I saw this on the BBC website, and it seems that the idea of having a portable music player, in several colours, and wth funky looks (that puts Creative out of the window) is not new. In fact, it originated in 1954 with the release if the Regency TR1 transistor radio (no, I could find a manufacturers website). This was a small funky, portable, battery powered radio, with a speaker rather than headphones, it came in four flavours and arrived just in time, for the new “teenagers” to listen to the equally new, rock ‘n roll music. So it seems, nothing is ever new!!!

-Via BBC News Technology