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 ...

Without today’s birthday boy, you might still be getting out of your chair every time you want to change the channel on the TV. Robert Adler, inventor of the first practical, wireless television ...

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, ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- 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 ...

Robert Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for inventing the TV remote control, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp.

You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Imagine watching TV and trying to surf through hundreds of channels without a remote control. Well, you have Eugene Polley to thank for not ...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a quick and easy way to locate a lost remote control and other items," said an inventor, from Lansing, Kan., "so I invented the REMOTE ...

Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital. He was 96. Couch potatoes everywhere have Polley to thank for hours ...