Eugene Polley should be ther most popular man on the planet. He left a legacy of leisure that billions of people lean upon each and every day, often for hours on end. Polley, a self-taught mechanical ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be an easy and eye-catching way to activate Christmas lights and other electronic holiday décor," said an inventor, from Wichita¸ Kan., ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a more timely and convenient means of locating a misplaced remote control," said an inventor, from Brooklyn, N.Y., "so I invented the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — A new documentary tells the story of Ralph Teetor, a blind automotive engineer and the inventor of cruise control.

Few people have ever heard of Ralph Teetor. That’s about to change. Teetor is the mechanical engineer who — despite losing his vision as a child — created the technology we now know as cruise control, ...

David Bradley is the IBM programmer responsible for bringing “Control-Alt-Delete,” that most comforting of key-combinations, into this world. Here he explains how it came to be and can’t help but add ...

PITTSBURGH, April 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way for caregivers to control a motorized wheelchair for individuals with special needs such as autism," said an inventor, from ...