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 ...

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, ...

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A co-inventor of the TV remote, Eugene J. Polley, has died, at 96, and the remembrances pouring in are fond, and sometimes funny. At the close of his obituary and tribute, Brian Williams of NBC ...

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 ...

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.

CHICAGO (AP) — A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died. John Taylor says the former Zenith engineer died of natural causes ...

CHICAGO -- 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 introduction ...

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 ...