Donkey Kong, bitch.

Corning, while experimenting, invented X in the 1960's, but since then had found no practical use for X, so it was never put into mass production. In 2006, a company Y was in the process of invention something "revolutionary of it's kind", Y's CEO while using a prototype of their said product, found that he greatly disliked it's flimsy plastic finish. He called Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning to find a replacement for the plastic, Weeks mentions the dead-end project of the 1960's that involved X. Y's CEO was so impressed he asked Weeks to put X into mass production immediately to release their product in June the next year. After the critical acclaim of it's product, all of Y's competitors started to incorporate X in their products.
X & Y?