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SO farewell, Eugene Polley, the Chicago engineer who invented the TV remote control away back in 1955.

Polley died last week at the age of 96 and I hope there were extensive royalties to sustain his long life.

The sofa-bound owe him a huge debt of gratitude for taking any effort out of changing channels. Or, these days, using one of your half-dozen remotes to go from Scart 1 to HDMI and from digibox to Blu-ray.

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