Don Rickles and Estelle Harris passed in the last decade ...

Imagine a line of affordable toys controlled by the player’s brainwaves. By interpreting biosignals picked up by the dry ...

Roger Hargreaves created the Mr. Men empire after his son asked, 'What does a tickle look like?', but died from a stroke ...

Mr Men and Little Miss books have sold more than 250 million copies and counting. And it was a question from Adam, son of creator Roger Hargreaves, which sparked the lot ...

Tenements crowded with Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe furnished the American toy industry with inventors and entrepreneurs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mr Tickle was one of the first six Mr Men to be released [Getty Images] One morning in 1961, eight-year-old Adam asked his dad: ...

One morning in 1971, eight-year-old Adam asked his dad: "What does a tickle look like?" This was the moment copywriter Roger Hargreaves started thinking of the answer and then drew Mr Tickle, the ...

In 1971, advertising writer Roger Hargreaves's eight-year-old son Adam asked him an unusual question: 'What does a tickle look like?' Inspired, Roger got out his marker pens and created an orange ...