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First TV Remote: Inventor Claims Remote Is "The Greatest Thing Since The Wheel"

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Couch potatoes, rejoice: This year the television remote control turns 57. Before the remotes went on sale starting in 1955, viewers had to use a wired clicker -- or, even worse, get up to change the channel.

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