Ozzy, you were bat s**t crazy, excuse the pun, but you were a character like no other — hop onto that crazy train of yours… ...

Think of it as Sony trying to get the best of both worlds: the digital quality and instant track access of a CD, combined with the record-anything freedom of a cassette tape.

Picture: Scott Reid Even when it comes to the CD player - that must-have wonder of the mid-80s hi-fi tower that looks a little niche four decades on - there have been some glimmers of hope.

Naturally, the product release cycle keeps on keepin’ on, though actually keeping track of every new gadget and hi-fi release ...

It's time to pull your dusty CD towers from your basement and give them the love they deserve with the Fiio DM13, a modernized take on the CD walkmans of old.

This bizarre little gadget was basically just a cassette tape recorder and player designed to be strapped to your hand with easily-accessible buttons and an extending microphone.

A quick in-person glance at the We Are Rewind cassette player and the Fiio DM-13 CD player reveals they are seemingly not as advanced as their vintage counterparts.

What' s the best Sony Walkman? Perhaps one of the following models. Check out this history of the once-popular consumer product.

While Thomson also has a Sony Walkman-style portable cassette player, it has a broken part, she said, and she doesn’t know how to fix it.

The Sony Walkman was a cultural revolution, enabling people to play any song, anywhere, anytime --- long before similar freedom existed for movies, e-books, or video games.