In yesterday's roundup of the good, bad and ugly in new remote controls, we included one photo of a vintage remote: the Zenith Space Command. We identified it as the first TV remote, gave some details ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Nothing between you and the set but space!” This was the slogan that Zenith Electronics Corporation used to market ...

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The TV remote as we know it came about for one simple reason – one man’s desire to mute the ads he felt were ruining his TV watching. It began with something TV viewers of the 21st Century can still ...

Eugene Polley, the man who invented the wireless television remote control in 1955, has died at the grand age of 96. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was CNET's film ...

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 ...

Let's talk remote controls. Mg7 / Getty Images/iStockphoto There's a discussion about which one is the most "nostalgic" one, and people in the replies are sharing their own.

The TV remote as we know it came about for one simple reason – one man’s desire to mute the ads he felt were ruining his TV watching. It began with something TV viewers of the 21st Century can still ...