The Austrian born Dr. Robert Adler (1913-2007), the co-inventor w/ Eugene Polley (both were working for Zenith) of the wireless TV remote control, passed away February 15th. The remote control device, called the Space Command (1956), used ultrasonic waves (remote control devices now use infrared radiation).
If it wasn't for his work, during World War II, on high-frequency magnetostrictive oscillators, we may never have been able to sit on our couch and flip through an ever increasing selection of channels, nor would we be able to control our iBook w/ that pretty white control fob.
IEEE link to Dr. Robert Adler
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I heard they lost him for a day or two then found him underneath a cushion on the sofa.
Sorry - I couldn't resist.
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