Cinnamoroll, Pochacco, Pompompurin, My Melody, Kuromi, Keroppi, Badtz-maru and of course, Hello Kitty herself, have now each received their own cassette tape charm toys in their signature colors.

It's time to dust off that cassette deck and turn those precious cassette tapes into MP3s. Here's how. Donald Bell Senior Editor / How To Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET ...

Vinyl is experiencing a huge resurgence — we all know this. But a rising tide lifts all ships and it has actually spawned renewed interest in other old-school audio formats as well, including CDs and, ...

Cassette tape, the other analog format Was the cassette the MP3 of its era? Still alive and kicking, ... They were the MP3s of the 1970s, '80s, and early '90s, ...

The inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens, has passed away, but he left a lasting musical legacy for listeners. ... Looking at them "is like a '90s time capsule," one said.

As any ’80s or ’90s kid will tell you, all we cared about was using the cassette player to record our favorite songs off the radio (*groans in ancient*) or play that Spice Girls song on repeat ...

To get into the '90s spirit of the cassette, as well as the spirit of the album being produced by Blue Album producer Ric Ocasek, I've drummed (har har har) up a little listening guide for ya.

Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, the man who had the idea for audio cassette tape, has died at age 94. ... He towered over me even when he was in his 90s. But he had big hands. He was kind of a klutz.

Lou Ottens, an engineer who invited the concept of the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, died Saturday at 94, according to news reports from the Netherlands.