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CHICAGOCHICAGO — Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the ...

A co-inventor of the TV remote, Eugene J. Polley, has died, at 96, and the remembrances pouring in are fond, and sometimes funny. At the close of his obituary and tribute, Brian Williams of NBC ...

The remote control has become a device that is equal parts practical and frustrating. Many gripe that their remotes have too many buttons and are easily misplaced, and it’s inconvenient to sit down in ...

It started out in the 1950s as an effort-saving gadget, like the electric can opener or electronic car keys. It evolved into a necessity, a cultural magic wand that has transformed the relationship of ...

Needing a control pendant for his CNC machine, [Bob Davis] took to his scrap bin and started looking for parts. What he came up with is pretty cool — that’s a rather old Zenith TV remote providing the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – We learned on Tuesday that the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control had died. Eugene Polley's first remote looked more like a ray gun, but it led to what we use today.

What labor-saving device is most important in today’s society? Got any guesses? I haven’t taken a poll nor done extensive research — elderly writers don’t like extensive work. My estimation is just ...

The inventor of the TV remote, Eugene Polley, died on Sunday at 96. After his death was announced on Tuesday, the Internet paused – get it? – to remember the man and the wireless television remote ...

Anyone with grandparents already knows that in ye olden days, televisions did not have remote control. Your parents probably still complain about how, as children, they were forced to physically walk ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died. The former Zenith engineer died of natural causes Sunday at a ...