🛠️ Invention or technique

Portable MP3 player (MPMan)

Reproductor MP3 portátil (MPMan)

Date
1998 · confidence high
Place
SaeHan Information Systems, Seoul, South Korea
Credited to
SaeHan Information Systems
Field
Tools

What it is

The first portable digital music player with no moving parts, with 32 MB of flash memory. It opened up the market that the iPod would later dominate.

What it led to

  • digital players such as the Rio and the iPod
  • the decline of the CD and the Walkman
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