Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20080025456 | FOLDING PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH STORAGE COMPARTMENT A pedometer or other portable electronic device may include substantially triangular first and second sections hinged together along a diagonal. A storage compartment is provided in one or both of the sections. The storage compartment may be accessed when the first sect... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080004834 | Pedometer To be able to further accurately measure a walk step number by restraining a walk from being erroneously detected by operating an operating portion. When operation of an operating portion 104 is detected, CPU 101 proceeds to a walk determining mode, counts... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20060120503 | Retractable pedometer A portable device, such as a pedometer or other device having a display portion that may be separated from an attachment portion for easier viewing. When separated, the display portion remains connected to the attachment portion to facilitate ease of re-attachment and f... | 06/08/2006 |
