The 1,505-piece Soundwave set includes sound effects and Ravage and Laserbeak cassettes.

The inventor of cassette tapes — who spawned the creation of countless mix tapes — has died at age 94, his family tells WTOP.

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Mr. Ottens, who died March 6 at 94, unleashed a sonic revolution with the Compact Cassette, which Philips unveiled at a Berlin radio exhibition in 1963.

Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. According to Dutch news outlet NRC Handelsblad, Ottens was 94 when he died on March 6th ...

The result was unveiled to the world in 1963, and the "compact cassette" quickly took off: It was "a sensation" from the start, Ottens told Time in 2013, on the cassette's 50th anniversary.