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The Walkman was a revolutionary device because it combined portability with the ability to listen to a personal selection of pre-recorded music from cassettes through headphones. -
Sony introduced the first portable compact disc player, the D-50, which allowed for music to be played from CDs instead of cassettes. -
The first commercial portable MP3 player was the MPMan F10, released by South Korean company Saehan Information Systems in 1998. -
The Samsung SPH-M100 is a cellphone and MP3 player launched in 2000 and was the first cell phone to have MP3 music playback capabilities. The phone was named one of the All-TIME 100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to 2010. -
The first iPod was released on October 23, 2001. Apple announced the device, which was a portable MP3 music player capable of holding 1,000 songs. At the time, it was groundbreaking for being able to hold 1,000 songs in a device that fit in your pocket. -
The first smartphone to integrate music into its design was the iPhone, introduced in January 2007 and released in June 2007. The iPhone combined the phone, iPod, and a web browser into a single device. -
The apple AirPods released in 2016 and completely changed the game for headphones. AirPods were innovative because they delivered a seamless, completely wireless audio experience with features like automatic setup and pairing. People can't get enough of them and there's hardly anyone who doesn't own them. -
Major tech company Sportify comes out with a revolutionary new headphone that completely changes everything. It now is drilled in the skull so that it can always stay in your ear no matter what. Very portable and convenient for all purposes. -
It is now the beginning of a new century. A brand new company called pear debuts with a hit item, the iChip. Now no extra device is even needed. All it takes is a simple installation of the chip into the brain and all the songs you could hope for are just a thought away. Advertisements are played every 10 minutes and there's no way to turn them off even at night unless you pay the monthly fee of $700. The product skyrockets and virtually everyone has an iChip installed in their brain. -
The iChip is ubiquitous. Music is constantly feeding into everyone's brains. People have now forgotten what silence sounds like. Communication is now done through sound waves that play over the music. There's very little communication even at all because nobody is concerned about the world around them. People are happier like this. They can just tune out all the bad parts of the world and be in the world they want to live in.