Daisuke Inoue, known as inventor of kara

NISHINOMIYA, JAPAN: Daisuke Inoue, known as inventor of karaoke, displays the certification of 2004 Ig Nobel peace prize, awarded from Harvard-affiliated science humor magazine the Annals of Improbable Research, at his office in Nishinomiya city near Osaka, western Japan 09 November 2004. Inoue would be a billionaire now only if he had filed for a patent for the device he invented three decades ago, karaoke machines on which music lovers spend 7.5 billion dollars a year in Japan alone. AFP PHOTO/Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP via Getty Images)

Daisuke Inoue, known as inventor of kara
NISHINOMIYA, JAPAN: Daisuke Inoue, known as inventor of karaoke, displays the certification of 2004 Ig Nobel peace prize, awarded from Harvard-affiliated science humor magazine the Annals of Improbable Research, at his office in Nishinomiya city near Osaka, western Japan 09 November 2004. Inoue would be a billionaire now only if he had filed for a patent for the device he invented three decades ago, karaoke machines on which music lovers spend 7.5 billion dollars a year in Japan alone. AFP PHOTO/Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP via Getty Images)
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