“The sweet voice of the nightingale was a euphony
Like the sound of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony!
Nature is beautiful for all to see and hear
Laugh at the joy and for the pain, shed a tear!”
Do you know who is Kane Kramer?
Not the quirky Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld whom everyone knows! Even Kramer though was an inventor of sorts!
Kane invented a music player which was the size of a credit card with a small LCD screen and navigation and volume buttons and would have held data of at least 8 MB of solid-state bubble memory chip with a capacity of 3½ minutes’ worth of audio! He was the first one to patent the idea too!
Plans were made for a 10-minute stereo memory card and the system was at one time fitted with a hard drive enabling over an hour of recorded digital music. His first investor was Sir Paul McCartney!
Later, Kramer set up a company to promote the player now called IXI and five working prototypes were produced with 16-bit sampling at 44.1 kilohertz with the pre-production prototype being unveiled at the APRS Audio/Visual trade exhibition!
At that time the company at the time had “orders worth £60 million” (value at current day!) for the device from the recording industry!
However, in 1988 a boardroom dispute within Kramer’s company and the subsequent failure to raise the £60,000 required to renew the patent resulted in the patent lapsing and entering the public domain!
Apple of course picked it up and developed the first music player in the same lines! Yes! The iPOD!
So Kane is the official genius behind the iPOD! And he came up with this idea of technology when he was just 23 years old, in 1979! What were you doing when you were 23 years old! Most probably reading! Younger days though would have been spent watching Kung Fu movies especially starring the birthday celebrity Jackie Chan!
Now maybe ask Alexa or Siri to play soft instrumental music and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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oh this was lovely thanks
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