Wood wanted to do so “before the disease progressed too far,” the outlet reported. Wood’s company LeapFrog boomed in popularity with the debut of the LeapPad in 1999. Wood stepped away from the ...

Mike Wood, the founder of the educational toy company LeapFrog Enterprises, died at age 72 in Zurich on April 10 through ...

His LeapPad tablets, which helped children read, found their way into tens of millions of homes beginning in 1999. By Trip Gabriel Mike Wood was a young father when his toddler’s struggles to ...

Mike Wood, a parent who wanted a better way to teach his son to read and developed the wildly popular LeapPad tablet that revolutionized learning, has died at 72. LeapFrog Enterprise’s LeapPad ...

Wood’s company LeapFrog boomed in popularity with the debut of the LeapPad in 1999. Wood stepped away from the company in 2004. The LeapPad was the best-selling toy of the 2000 holiday season.