Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless television remote control, once said that “the flush toilet may have been the most civilized invention ever devised, but the remote control is the ...

I can’t figure out how to watch my brother’s TV. He’s explained it to me a hundred times, but that’s the curse of the baby-sitting uncle: It’s harder to work a remote control than it is to change a ...

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 ...