Robert Adler: 1913 - 2007: Gave the World Wireless TV remotePhysicist Who Designed Zenith's Space Command Controller Said He Didn't Watch Much Television and Never Channel Surfed
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By Trevor Jensen, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 18--Robert Adler, 93, who helped invent the device that created a nation of sedentary television viewers forever flummoxed by the question, "Where's the remote?" died Thursday, Feb.
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Why it's broke and how it can be fixed Comment Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions - Catch-22â¦
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By Diana Moskovitz, The Miami Herald  May 27--After years as a NASA engineer, Earl Driscoll left the space program and never looked back. He was content taking over the family janitorial business -- a job where his mistakes didn't cost lives.
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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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By Waldock, Marlene J  Board of Contributors  IT'S HARD TO BEUEVE that Americans once got along without television. The TV explosion began about 1948, forever changing the way we live and communicate.
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Nel 1956 realizzo il primo dispositivo capace di cambiare canalee controllare il volume del televisore. Ma non era a batterie                                            Addio Robert Adler, l'inventore del telecomando a ultrasuoni
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If a satellite encounters high-energy particles or other 'space weather' phenomena before ground controllers can take action, on-board electronics could be disrupted, scientific instruments damaged and, in very rare and extreme cases, spacecraft may even be lost.
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So we need a continent-sized Faraday cage, right? And lots of candles... Be afraid. The recent election removed a stalwart defender of the United States against one demonical menace among many, the electromagnetic pulse attack, the one that will fry our electronics. The spiritual leader of the cause, Republican Congressman Curt Weldon, was endorsed by Frank Gaffney, right wing defender of the faith in national security and pundit for the pages of the Washington Times, two days before Weldon's political career was terminated.â¦
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Google and Earthlink tried, and failed, disappearing in a sea of bureaucratic red tape. Now a startup hopes to persuade San Franciscans to voluntarily put radio repeaters on their rooftops. Good luck with that.
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By SHANNON DININNY BOISE, Idaho - 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 adage in space science is that one person's noise is another's signal. When the sun temporarily blocked Earth-Mars links, the orbital and surface science went into a deep sleep to protect from noise becoming a errant signal...
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Here's the problem with setting a video game in outer space: There's nothing to do out there. It's a vacuum. No one can hear you scream.
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Actual Expert Too Boring for TV! Lazy Scientists Discover New Cable Channel! TV-News Graphics Guy Gives Weatherman On-Air Surprise! Soon, you can have all the fake broadcast news you want from theonion.com. By Sonja Zjawinski.
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Aviation pioneer Burt Rutan has been fondly remembering his childhood hero - German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. The X-Prize victor recently hooked up with two surviving members of von Braun&#39;s V2 team
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Don't get too attached to your widescreen TV -- it'll soon be obsolete.
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.
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By SETH SUTEL Associated Press  NEW YORK -- Robert McDowell, the newest member of the Federal Communications Commission, on Tuesday said he didn't see a compelling need for cable TV operators to sell channels individually.