K - L: LeapFrog, LeapPad

 

Frustrated by the lack of educational toys, in 1995 Mike Wood, a California attorney, rewired a talking greeting card to help his son differentiate between phonetic sounds. Soon afterward Wood founded ...

David Lipson, president of Ackerman McQueen in Dallas, Texas, traces the story of LeapFrog, an electronic learning product introduced in 1997, which by 2003 had sales of over $300 million and won a ha ...