Eugene Polley, who invented the first wireless TV remote, has died. WARNING: Gizmodo link. Eugene J. Polley, a man best known for inventing the first wireless television remote control, died of ...

DALLAS -- In 1955, Zenith introduced the first wireless TV remote control, the Flash-Matic, followed a year later by the Space Command. Since then, the standard remotes that most viewers get with ...

This undated photo of a 1955 advertisement, provided by LG Electronics, shows an ad for a Zenith "Flash-Matic," the first wireless TV remote control. A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says engineer ...

Just ask anyone who's lost a remote. Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital, said Zenith Electronics spokesman John Taylor. The former Zenith engineer was 96. In 1955, if ...