Please Lower Your Remotes to Half Staff

Today couch potatoes everywhere are in mourning:

Adler, who died Thursday at the age of 93, was the co-inventor of the remote control, the device that has bedeviled, edified and otherwise sustained a grateful nation of couch potatoes ever since its introduction. 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.

All kidding aside, this guy probably did more to affect the television watching experience than even the introduction of color back in the 60's. As Jerry Seinfeld has said, guys don't want to know what's on TV, they want to know what else is on TV, and the remote made that "hunting" experience much easier.

Thank you Mr. Adler.