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 ...

Quote of the day by Nikola Tesla remains strikingly relevant in a world grappling with rapid technological change and ethical ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho - Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the ...

It's time now for your letters. Yesterday, we remembered Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless remote control. He died last weekend at the age of 96. Polley earned 18 U.S. patents in his ...

Increasingly, any television without TiVo or some other digital video recorder is perceived to be a broken television -- and if not broken, then often near unbearable! Time and attention are scarce, ...