Wood created LeapFrog in the 1990s to help children learn through fun, launching the popular LeapPad. He later became a volunteer reading teacher and is remembered as an inspiring innovator and ...

Mike Wood, the founder of the LeapFrog toy company, died earlier this month by physician-assisted suicide. He was 72.

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.