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Inventor of the TV Remote Dies By SHANNON DININNY, Associated Press Writer

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BOISE, Idaho - Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote has died.

Robert Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made couch potatoship possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.

In his six-decade career with Zenith, Adler was a prolific inventor, earning more than 180 U.S. patents. He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make TV a truly sedentary pastime.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Adler and co-inventor Polley, another Zenith engineer, an Emmy in 1997 for the landmark invention.

Adler joined Zenith's research division in 1941 after earning a doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna. He retired as research vice president in 1979, and served as a technical consultant until 1999, when Zenith merged with LG Electronics Inc.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published his most recent patent application, for advances in touch screen technology, on Feb. 1.

Adler is survived by his wife, Ingrid.



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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 

This man CHANGED my life! 

Before the remote control came along I was my fathers remote control

He'd say "Jeremy, turn the channel, no, go back, back more, ok turn it to twelve, wait, nah, back to six.  Ok, leave it there but in two minutes go back to twelve and see if the commercial is over"



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LOL! So true and if you were like me most times I was lazy and would watch something I did not want to just cause I was too lazy to get up and walk over to change the channel!


His was truly a controversial invention though- he made us be bigger couch potatoes, made a husband a bit more powerful and made us have 125 channels and still NOTHING is on!

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He's pretty much the inventor of my favorite sport too!

Channel Surfin' duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude

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Rest in peace, oh great master of the channel surfing. I'm grateful you lived!



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I wonder how many fights the world over have started with the remote control zapper thingy....

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Hmmm... a good question.

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