Kane Kramer

Kane Kramer ( born 1956 in the UK) is a British inventor who developed in 1979 a device for playing digital music stored.

At this time, an absolute novelty, since both the idea of ​​the digitized music and storing them on a portable player were completely new. Kane Kramer was, therefore, together with his colleague James Campbell, in 1979, patented the distribution of music pieces in the data format over telephone lines, as well as the developed prototypes of them. This was probably the first device to play music that worked with no moving parts. Compared to today's MP3 players, the playing time of the device, however, was very low. The patented players could save scarce 3.5 minutes music, by further developments it brought the music player in 1986 to fewer than five minutes of playing time.

In the course of conflicts of the Apple company with a third party to the rights of MP3 players Kramer could represent his authorship and thus help Apple without themselves benefit from it much since its invention was free because he the high cost of the regular patent renewal not been able to muster.

Kane Kramer organized the British Invention Show, an inventor fair, which is held annually in October at the Alexandra Palace in London and will be hosted by the British Inventors Society, and advises companies.