Re: A father of home automation "beams up"

[Frank Schmittroth <franks@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:07:47 -0500, Robert Green wrote:

> Robert Adler, co-inventor of the remote control and a prolific inventor,
> died Thursday at the age of 93.  Along with inventor and fellow engineer
> Eugene Polley, Adler helped bring the first commercially successful wireless
> TV remote -- the Zenith Space Command -- to market in 1956.
>
> Adler and Polley's refinement was ingeniously simple. When a viewer pressed
> the buttons on the Space Command, tiny hammers struck lightweight aluminum
> rods to produce high-frequency sounds . . .

I recall an ultrasonic remote we had.  Every time the dog jingled his
tags, the tv changed channels.

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frank