Any standard 3.5mm headphones will work just fine with a portable deck.
A light weight portable cassette player is what you would want.
Panasonic RQ-SW48VK Portable Cassette Player is great protable deck for your everyday uses.
The Sony Walkmen, which have been around for two decades, will last very long on two AA's.
Sony makes very cheap cassette decks and is one of the few manufacturers still producing them.
Honestly, with the change in todays recording environment, I would say the Teac or Sony brand of cassette deck would be the best.
ION TAPE2PC Dual cassette deck has usb on it.
In my opinion, the best cassette deck is made by sony.
JVC will give you a slightly better sound from the cassette deck than the Teac.
The Onkyo has good reviews, and Onkyo in general is a well-recieved brand.
A cassette deck is a device used to play and record cassette tapes.
There is the Ion Audio Tape2PC USB Cassette Deck.
Pyle makes a cassette deck that is around 80 dollars.