Before the MP3 was the Walkman and before that was the "tranny" - the transistor radio. Personal radios existed before their mass popularity in the 1960's, but then they became a teenage 'must-have'.

securing a license to produce transistors was difficult in the early days. What’s worse is, even with the license, it was not feasible to use the crude devices in a radio.

The humble transistor radio is one of those consumer devices that stubbornly refuses to go away, but it’s fair to say that it’s not the mover and shaker in the world of electronics it might on ...

They had to catch the attention of the public. That happened with the hand-held radio. The first transistor radio was a joint project between the Regency Division of Industrial Development ...

All handheld radios, as well as desktop radios, use transistors, both discrete as well as contained in chips. The transistor radio was one of the first consumer devices that employed solid state ...

It was late afternoon at a conference for the Institute of Radio Engineers ... But, they said, no one should expect a silicon transistor for years. Then Gordon Teal of Texas Instruments stood ...

The built-in FM radio tuner is now considered a basic feature. It allows the user to listen to most of the live-broadcasted FM radio stations. Almost all phones with FM radio tuner require a wired ...

Devices that contain Bluetooth chips communicate via a standard radio frequency instead of through wires, cables, or direct user action. Newly manufactured devices are Bluetooth SIG 1.2 compliant and ...

Bluetooth speakers have been a major fixture in my life ever since I picked up the original Ultimate Ears Boom in college. I use them to listen to podcasts or my favorite playlists while I’m ...

People say California has no seasons, especially no autumn with vivid foliage. They've never been here in October.

The significant advantage of NFC over Bluetooth is the shorter set-up time. Instead of performing manual configurations to identify Bluetooth devices, the connection between two NFC devices is ...

Also called a "bipolar junction transistor" (BJT), it is one of two major transistor categories; the other is "field-effect transistor" (FET). Although the first transistor was bipolar and the ...