Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips the company where he also helped develop the compact disc ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. An estimated 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold around the world since they were introduced ...

First it was vinyl records. Now another analogue music format, the cassette tape, has made a return, and with it the boom box. One Hong Kong collector has amassed nearly 90 portable cassette players.

Dutch inventor of cassette tape, who filled teen bedrooms with music, dies at 94 Engineer Lou Ottens’ interest in tech was sparked as a boy when he built a radio with a special antenna that he ...

Digital technologies disrupted the music industry in the 21st century. But an invention by Philips, launched in 1963 at the Berlin Radio Show. changed forever the relationship between consumers ...