[TechAssist] Re: Man who glued TV watchers to the couch dies

Let's hope he died on his couch,WITH his remote in his hand !!! 
Job well done Mr. Adler......... =D>

Peggs 

At 04:47 PM 2/16/07, dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>*BOISE, Idaho* (AP) -- 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 February 1.
>
>(from cnn.com)
>
>-- 
>
>Doug Keller
>Wis-Kel Electronics
>101 Freeland Ave.
>Terra Alta, WV
>USA        26764
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