TV Remote Control's Founding Father — we mourn him now

Dear DMC

Dull Men everywhere will mourn the passing of Eugene Polley, inventor of the TV remote control: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18164200

Regards

Steve Reszetniak
London

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Dear Steve,

Wow. That’s really something to have invented. It’s made staying at home even more enjoyable.

We see that he lived to be 96 and had worked at Zenith for 47 years. We dull men value continuity like that.

DMC

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