Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Inventor of the wireless TV remote dies


We take comfort knowing that this great man is in TV Heaven!

Eugene Polley, inventor of the wireless TV remote, dies at age 96

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If it weren't for Eugene J. Polley, flipping TV channels would be an exhausting and tedious undertaking.  Polley, after all, invented the world's first wireless TV remote. He died of natural causes on Sunday, at the age of 96. According to a press release put out by Zenith.
 
(Who knew that Zenith was still in business?)

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