LeapFrog
LeapFrog LeapPad
The number one toy in the United States, U.K., and Australia for years running, the LeapPad has helped over 100 million kids learn to read. In 2005, the LeapPad was in over 77% of American households with children between the ages of four and seven.
"Jim Marggraff has helped make learning easier for millions of children. Armed with MIT bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, Marggraff tackled geography education in the 1990s with a talking globe that pronounced the names of countries when the student tapped them. The business was acquired by LeapFrog Enterprises Inc., where Marggraff developed the popular LeapPad, which could read text from specially printed books, helping children learn to read."
2015
MIT 150
Landmark patents
US 9520069
Method and system for providing content for learning appliances over an electronic communication medium
US 7936339
Method and system for invoking computer functionality by interaction with dynamically generated interface regions of a writing surface
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Method and system for implementing a user interface for a device employing written graphical elements
US 7453447
Interactive apparatus with recording and playback capability usable with encoded writing medium
US 6750978 B1