Shigeichi Negishi, the Japanese engineer who designed the first ever karaoke machine, has died aged 100, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Negishi’s daughter Atsumi Takano told WSJ journalist Matt Alt that he had suffered a fall, and died of natural causes shortly after on January 26. He was 100 years old.
The Tokyo-born designer invented the first prototype karaoke machine in 1967 which he called the Sparko Box, an automated machine which required instrumental tapes to…