A Remote Place

Mr. Eugene Polley, inventor of the television remote control, passed away Sunday at the age of 96.

Although we tend to think of the wireless remote as a more recent invention, Polley apparently developed one during the 1950s. For whatever reason, it took quite some time to catch on and become more widespread.

In my own household, I believe a remote-control television was not purchased until after the two biological bipedal remotes code-named "me" and "my sister" had moved out of the house.