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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 ...

Several companies offer universal remote controls that ”learn” the commands of your existing handful (or armful) of remotes that control your TV, VCR and cable converter. In addition to being able to ...

The TV remote as we know it came about for one simple reason – one man’s desire to mute the ads he felt were ruining his TV watching. It began with something TV viewers of the 21st Century can still ...

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 ...

A bit of fun. I came across a mention of this on a recent No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. It's the Zenith Lazy Bones TV remote control, the very first TV remote, apparently... I'd never heard of it ...

Eugene Polley, the man who invented the wireless television remote control in 1955, has died at the grand age of 96. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was CNET's film ...