Almost everyone thought he was silly. Still, Ibuk a kept his ide a and worked at it. The result, of course, turned out to be the successful Sony Walkman.Good ideas often start with a really silly question. Bill Bowerman was making break-fast one day. As he stood there making cakes ...
that was able to, now, have leisure time, because of their new economic success. And so what they did was, they wanted to, sort of, express the fact that they had leisure time by playing. But they also wanted to signify that they were...
Almost everyone thought he was silly(愚蠢的). Still, Ibuka kept his idea and worked at it. The result, of course, turned out to be the successful Sony Walkman. Good ideas often start with a really silly question. Bill Bowerman was making breakfast one day. As he stood there making ...
from a top-of-the-world gadget that people referred to as an addiction — the CrackBerry phenomenon was no joke — to just another of the many thingsleft for deadby the iPhone. Talking about the BlackBerry now is like talking about, I don’t know,...
I've always been a huge Alfred Hitchcock fan, since I was a kid. I remember seeing Psycho on some afternoon movie thing on TV, and I was fascinated. Maybe even a bit terrified, you know... being a kid and all. But to this day, one of the ones that still creeps me right the ...
Do you really think Apple could have invented the iPod without the Sony Walkman’s having come first, seeing how people used it, and observing the cultural shift that was happening because of it? I don’t. Another article, “Master of Play,” written by Nick Paumgarten for the New ...
Finally, the teacher who had the room next to mine came in to see what all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started laughing, too! “Good heavens,” I said. “Will someone please tell me what is so funny?’ “Oh, God,” said the teacher. “You have a brown sock to...
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Schneider invented his multipronged cake breaker, he had no notion of its destiny as a comb for Afro‐American hair. While bakers today use pie cutters to cut their angel food cakes, in its day, this tool took the cake. You may also like: What the world was like when your grandparents...
Sony makes everything from motion pictures to gaming consoles to broadcast video equipment. They invented portable music with the Walkman. That’s why, despite the fact that it came as a surprise to just about everyone in the room, when Sony’s President and CEO Kenichiro Yo...