The smallest Discman ever made - was smaller than a CD : Sony D-88

A look back at one of the most collectable portable CD players - the Sony D-88 from 1988. The smallest Discman ever made.

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[polishonion]

“480 revolutions per minute”

France: finally! A worthy opponent

[electrickoathanger]

"World's Most Advanced Pizza Cutter"

[gen]

Everybody gangsta till you sharpen the disc

[ameliabuns]

I really hope they also made a sawblade accessory for it to turn it into a saw

[jennysbloke]

You could use that thing as an angle grinder ! Do they do diamond tipped CDs ?

[Movie_Games]

Does Sony have a MP3 player that has half of the MP3 hanging out?

[danzk]

I saw this footage used on a Japanese TV Show and they credited you. It was The Ninchido Show on Asahi TV.

[fur_gal]

me: Dad, i want an electric saw
my Dad: we have an electric saw in house
the saw:

[vjollila]

I miss the time when tech companies were more experimental

[xx-phml]

I just realized this was uploaded in 2015, the comments are 1 day old.

[iLoxy]

Plot twist: They miscalculated the dimensions and just went with it

[ReviewGuy]

my brother got one of these and he sharpened the edge of a throwaway cd to see it of it can cut through skin and got 12 stitches.
best christmas ever he said

[sirspookybones]

Alternatively, you can put a gamecube disc in and wonder why you tried

[sonyviva]

3:15 Congratulations, now you've tranformed your Discman into a Bosch angle grinder

[PasleyAviationPhotography]

Came back to this just now (12/2022). Looked it up on ebay and working versions are now over $1k and broken ones over $300. I have no doubt this is all a result of this video.

[thesteelrodent]

imagine doing this with last gen 48x speed CD-ROM drives where the discs spin up to 15, 000 rpm .... it'd double as table saw

[NigelGentry]

Another reason that they stopped making the smaller CDs was that a lot of CD players (including ones in the iMac and laptop computers) started using slot loading for the CDs and these usually wouldn't take the small CDs.
I have a limited edition small square CD (Doctor Who - Variations on a Theme). That would look cool spinning around in that player.

[AlejandroKark]

I finally saw it are you happy now YouTube?!

[fortherecord]

I have an interview CD and the disc has been cut in the shape of the artists HEAD. I'm pretty sure with this discman and that disc you could actually KILL A MAN.

[schneeds]

This man coulda picked any genre of music.. any artist... any era... and he picks the chronic.. lmao I'm subscribing just cause of that!! Keep up the good work man!!!