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The New Zealand Herald
| 12 months ago
The 96-year-old's death was announced by the Zenith Electronics Corporation, for which Polley began his career in the stockroom before moving into engineering and eventually inventing the device, called the Flash-Matic, in 1955, which worked by...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
News in pictures On Facebook From the blogs Today Tahrir Square is not the scene of demonstrations against the military...The whole point of the Asbo was to prevent anti-social characters wreaking havoc in local communitie... While some will hold the...
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Denver Post
| 12 months ago
Font Resize The New York Times Eugene Polley, an inventor whose best-known creation has fostered blissful sloth, caused decades of domestic discord and forever altered the way consumers watch television, died Sunday in Downers Grove, Ill...His death...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
As he told the Baltimore Sun in November 2000: "It makes me think maybe my life wasn't wasted. Maybe I did something for humanity like the guy who invented the flush toilet."...Photograph: AP Polley's problem was that his invention, the raygun-like...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Emily Langer May 24, 2012 Read later Cutting-edge ... an advertisement for the Flash-Matic. TV remote control, a gadget that also featured the first mute function to silence the more obnoxious sounds of television, has died...Polley lived his entire...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
Channel surfers everywhere owe a debt to inventor Eugene Polley, who died this week. CNN) -- 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...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Eugene Polley, the inventor of the television remote control, has died at the age of 96. His original design, named the Zenith Flashmatic, was created in 1955 but it wasn't until the 1970s that it began to arrive in homes. British inventor Graham...
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Independent
| 12 months ago
Polley, the inventor of the television remote control and the man hailed as the founding father of the modern couch potato, has died aged 96. Mr Polley, who created the innovative device in 1955, passed away from natural causes in his home of Chicago.
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
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 of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become...
