In yesterday's roundup of the good, bad and ugly in new remote controls, we included one photo of a vintage remote: the Zenith Space Command. We identified it as the first TV remote, gave some details ...

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A bit of fun. I came across a mention of this on a recent No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. It's the Zenith Lazy Bones TV remote control, the very first TV remote, apparently... I'd never heard of it ...

The TV remote as we know it came about for one simple reason – one man’s desire to mute the ads he felt were ruining his TV watching. It began with something TV viewers of the 21st Century can still ...