Imagine you’re sitting on the sofa, but you forgot to pick up the TV remote, and your smart speaker isn’t listening to your request. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if your sofa’s armrest could act as a ...

The man who created a million couch potatoes has died. Eugene Polley invented the world's first wireless television remote. He died of natural causes on Sunday at the age of 96 at the Advocate Good ...

Are you very lazy but very clever? Then perhaps you'll want to build a mind-reading remote control so you never need leave the sofa to change channel. Daniel Davis, who runs an award-winning video ...

Couch potatoes just found another excuse not to get off the sofa - a TV which can monitor your eyes and change the channel if you give it the nod. The Eye Control TV, by Chinese manufacturer Haier, ...

A lost remote control is the most minor of crises. Barely an annoyance really, typically resolved by flipping enough couch cushions. Which is perhaps why it’s taken so long for the disruptive types to ...

The average sofa will witness 1,236 arguments, have 2,728 drink and food spillages on it – and see blokes sleeping on it after getting kicked out of bed 191 times, a study has found. Over the course ...