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Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979
- jdale27 17y agoWhy is his prescience "suspicious"?
- mixmax 17y agoGoes to prove that timing and execution are more important than the idea.
- Batsu 17y agoTalk about being before his time. I wonder if he even thought about it when that whole Napster thing fired up?
- psygnisfive 17y agoI saw this device in an episode of the TV show Beyond 2000. And this was back in the early to mid 90s. Welcome to 15 years ago?
- mseebach 17y agoThe difference between 1970's and the early 90's is the Walkman. Personal, portable stereos wasn't a proven technology 30 years ago, it was 15 years ago. These "uuh, the future" TV-shows usually predict the future in terms of extrapolating current popular technology, sort of the guys Henry Ford said would have told him to make a really good horse carriage. Looking at the (cassette-tape) Walkman and extrapolating beyond the limitations into an MP3-player device isn't very rocket science. Making it a marketable product is (almost).
- JMiao 17y agokramerica industries: it exists!