Eugene Polley should be ther most popular man on the planet. He left a legacy of leisure that billions of people lean upon each and every day, often for hours on end. Polley, a self-taught mechanical ...

February 17, 2007 The man who invented the remote control for the television, Dr. Robert Adler, died this week, giving us a timely reminder of just how fast technology is progressing. Dr. Adler's ...

CHICAGO — TV watchers have cause to lift their remote controls for a moment of silence. Eugene Polley, 96, inventor of the first wireless channel changer, died Sunday, according to Zenith Electronics, ...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 15, 2020 "I wanted to create a way to keep your TV remote, DVD remote and all your other remote controls together and organized in one place," said an inventor, from Water Valley, ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a more timely and convenient means of locating a misplaced remote control," said an inventor, from Brooklyn, N.Y., "so I invented the ...