<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1335a26c-d895-4cc9-b897-74bb14771083/7AA75AC1-5312-414D-8D60-80601DE6DEA3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/displays/magazine/test2007/vg_greatestgadget" href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/displays/magazine/test2007/vg_greatestgadget" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/displays/magazine/test2007/vg_greatestgadget"><H1 id="articlehed">1956: Zenith Space Commander Remote Control</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/displays/magazine/test2007/vg_greatestgadget"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/1CB74BEB-E9F4-4B59-A864-4C1166E258E8" alt="Gadget Hall of Fame" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/displays/magazine/test2007/vg_greatestgadget"><P>Which came first: the TV, or complaining about what you're watching? For years, changing channels meant an arduous climb out of the La-Z-Boy, until electronics pioneer Zenith came to the rescue. The company hit on a winning wireless design in 1955 and started production a year later. The Space Command system was pure genius: Pushing a button caused a clapper to hit an aluminum rod, which emitted an ultrasonic tone. The TV interpreted the various tones as commands to switch the channel up or down, mute the sound, or turn itself on or off. The gadget was an immediate hit, despite increasing the cost of compatible Zenith sets by 30 percent, and the technology endured until the dawn of infrared in the 1980s.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7AA75AC1-5312-414D-8D60-80601DE6DEA3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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