CHICAGO — Eugene Polley, an electronics engineer who revolutionized American leisure by inventing the wireless TV remote control, a gadget that also featured the first mute function to silence the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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