RyanJLane/istockphotoIf you’ve got an old record player sitting in the garage collecting dust, it might be time to take a closer look at it. Vintage record players don’t just serve as nostalgic relics ...

Sony finally released the product in 1992, and it was popular in Japan into the 2000s. To record data onto optical storage like CDs and Blu-Rays, lasers etch microscopic pits into the surface of ...