Japanese Inventor Dr. NakaMats Does His Best Work in a Golden Bathroom
Dr. NakaMats goes down in history for being one of the most prolific inventors of all time, with over 3,572 patents under his name. One of his biggest claims to fame is the floppy disk, which he patented in 1952. IBM tries to dispute this, saying that they were the ones who first invented it in 1969. Some of his other brilliant inventions were the CD, the DVD, the fax machine, the taxi meter, the digital watch, and the karaoke machine. He is incredibly famous in Japan, even though few people in the rest of the world know who he is. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Dr. NakaMats has a net worth of $50 million. He made so much money, that he installed a gold-plated bathroom in his home, because it’s the one room of his house where he did the most inventing.