I bet you didn't know that... A guy called Kane Kramer came up with the idea when he was 23, but after a board split in 1986 of his then company he couldn't find the £60,000 needed to renew patents across 120 countries and the technology became public property Recently Apple flew Kramer over to the US to give evidence in their defence during a lawsuit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...D-invent-iPod-hes-getting-money.html?ITO=1490