Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless , began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity.

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. . . you could buy a new Zenith television with Flash-Matic tuning. The TV came with a green ray gun-shaped contraption with a red trigger. The advertising promised "TV miracles." The "flash tuner" was "Absolutely harmless to humans!" Most intriguing of all: "You can even shut off annoying commercials while the picture remains on the screen."

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Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital, said Zenith Electronics spokesman John Taylor. The former Zenith engineer was 96.
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Thanks Eugene!