Kane Kramer is a serial inventor. His inventions include the technology behind the MP3 player and Monicall.
He was the first to conceive the idea of downloading music, data and video down telephone lines in 1979
when he was 23 and patented it with James Campbell who was 21.
Together they went on to pioneer digital recording and built the world's first solid state digital recorder/players.


Kane's latest invention is Monicall - a system for making conversations into enforceable and legally binding agreements. Kane is the founder of the British Inventors Society (BIS), the British Invention Show and
organiser of the British Invention of the Year Awards. www.thebis.org

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 This is what the first Portable Digital Audio player ever looked like on paper. This is an original drawing by Kane Kramer done in 1979 when he was 23 years old.
 It shows quite clearly the concept Kane believed would revolutionize the music industry. The IXI System report and the 1981 patent explains how the whole idea  revolved around distributing music electronically down telephone lines, this was many years before the internet had been invented.