Inventor of the Couch Potato Dies

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Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Article Tools

Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday