Inventor of the TV remote 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.
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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Inventor Robert Adler died recently at 93. But his most famous invention, the first successful clicker, will live long after him.
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Tribute to the 'modern day Isaac Newton' Obituary French Nobel laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, a pioneer of the liquid crystal display (LCD), died last week at the age of 74.â¦
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The announcer who coined the legendary phrase &quot;Elvis has left the building&quot; has died at 81 - killed in a car crash on his way home from an Elvis convention in California.
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A new universal remote is designed to be lord of the living room, and connects to a computer so consumers can set it up and maintain it themselves.
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TV steeplejack Fred Dibnah dies in a hospice in Greater Manchester after a long battle against cancer.
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Jose Fialho Gouveia, a pioneer of television entertainment in Portugal, died Saturday. He was 69.
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Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, has died at 100.
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Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died Thursday. He was 77. Evans died of heart failure at his at his home in the San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough, his son Evan told the Associated Press.
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By Fiona MacRae AS any truly dedicated couch potato will tell you, it can be tiring pressing the buttons on the remote control. But even that exertion might soon be avoided with the arrival of the thought-activated television.
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Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, inventor of a low-cost prosthetic foot that has helped millions of people in developing and war-torn countries, has died. He was 80.
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Like x-ray specs, the invisibility suit or the ever-lasting doughnut, it sounds too good to be true. But a US electronics expert is selling a tiny remote-control device that he claims can switch off any television at the push of a button.
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Christopher Reeve, who portrayed a hero in the &quot;Superman&quot; films and embodied one as an advocate for spinal cord research after being paralyzed in an accident, has died.
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Former ICI boss and TV 'troubleshooter' Sir John Harvey-Jones dies in his sleep following a long illness.
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Robert Adler was a physicist and prolific inventor best known as the co-inventor of the television remote control device.
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The co-founder of Matchbox Toys, Jack Odell, dies aged 87 - almost 60 years after the firm was founded.