Auio-Technica Corporation (株式会社オーディオテクニカ, Kabushiki-gaisha Ōdhio Tekunika?), established in 1962 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a company that designs and manufactures professional wired and wireless microphones, headphones, phonographic magnetic cartridges, and other audio equipment. One of their most famous products was a battery-operated, portable record player called Mister Disc that was sold in the U.S. in the early 1980s.