Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979
Kane Kramer, an inventor by trade, came up with a gadget and music distribution service almost eerily similar to the iPod-iTunes relationship that predates it by three decades. The guy predicted details down to DRM and flash memory’s dominance. Kramer’s device, the IXI, was flash-based, even though flash memory in 1979 only could have held…