Eventually, this would lead to the ascendancy of the cassette tape and the Walkman. But things could have taken a different path. In this video from Techmoan, we are introduced to Japan's SANYO ...

Sanyo extends its Xacti brand, formerly reserved for various cameras, into digital audio recorders with its Xacti ICR-PS285RM. It stores 2GB of your ramblings in MP3, PCM, WMA, or DRM10-WMA formats.

Not that anyone was actually keeping track, but Sanyo just announced the world's largest capacity MP3 voice recorder. That's 8GB kid with a hefty ¥43,000 (about $375) price to match. For that you ...