[RexBeach]

Eugene, we hardly knew ye.

RIP.

[fatnotlazy]

Too bad he couldn’t invent better tv shows.

RIP

[a fool in paradise]

Will there be a 21-click salute at the funeral?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

He will be buried in the couch cushions I think.

[wolfman23601]

I remember my grandparents having something like this

[Calvin Locke]

"Absolutely harmless to humans!"

Their first attempt involved ultrasonics. The remote had tuning forks or the like in them, and a button press would strike it the corresponding one.

I think it fizzled in the lab, because a woman there could hear that high up, and she thought they were deliberately annoying her. They figured if she could hear it, what about Fido...and they then figured they should find an alternative signalling method.

Our first color tv was a Heathkit, with a wired remote. Power, and a channel stepper for the VHF band. 12 at most?

RIP

[Buckeye McFrog]

With only 3 channels they were a whole lot easier to program though...

[Fresh Wind]

It was the first wireless TV control, but the first wireless control for a radio was marketed in 1939 by Philco. It was a device the size of a toaster with a battery inside the size of a brick. A control that resembled a telephone dial was used to select stations and control the volume.

[dead]

A greater man never lived. He should lie in state in the capitol rotunda.

[Recon Dad]

Next to Edison our greatest inventor!!!!

[Wagonboy]

I here-by deem my clicker “Eugene” in honor of a great un-sung hero and great American. If I can only find it.... -Wb

[wildbill]

This invention is an act that would normally lead to sainthood and prayers from true-believers.

[Miles the Slasher]

Never has one man done so much to help his fellow man do so little.

[Beowulf9]

Before him we had to change the channels with our bare hands:(

Well, he’s on ‘mute’, now.

[Joe 6-pack]

Although I rarely, if ever, watch TV, Mr. Polley has provided my dogs with hours of amusement...

[Mike Darancette]

A great man has passed. RIP.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

His wife had to pry the remote from his cold, dead hands, the coroner’s office reports. Funeral arrangements are private. Mr. Polley will be interned between the cushions of his living room couch, family sources revealed.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I got my first TV with a remote control in 2002. My previous TV was purchased in 1980 and was still working well when we disposed of it in 2004.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I don’t know how we lived without it. Seriesly. I’m not lazy, but when I become one with the couch after a long day, especially in the winter, I don’t want to get up!

Thank you, remote guy.