Dr. Joseph Jackson was a Black inventor and engineer who built the technology behind every remote control, every DVR, every programmable receiver ever made. Every couch. Every channel. Every skipped ad. His invention is everywhere. His name is almost nowhere.

Now you know. Wear that.

The Buillth TV Remote tee is part of the Never Forget collection — wearable archives honoring the Black inventors who built the modern world and never got the credit.

The design: Full museum archive poster. Programmable receiver schematics, signal encoding diagrams, infrared transmission blueprints — the technical record of a Black inventor's most important work, presented as the historical document it deserves to be.

Wear it. They'll ask. Then you tell them.

The shirt: Heavyweight unisex tee. 100% ring-spun cotton. Soft enough to live in, bold enough to start a conversation. Tear-away label. Runs true to size.

Dr. Joseph Jackson — The Short Version

Dr. Joseph Jackson was a Black inventor and engineer who invented the programmable receiver — the foundational technology behind every VCR, DVR, TiVo, and smart TV remote controller ever made. Every time someone changes a channel, skips an ad, or pauses a stream from across the room, they're using a technology trail that leads directly back to his work. His name is in almost none of the devices that carry it.

→ Read the full story of Dr. Joseph Jackson on the Buillth inventor page.

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Product information: Gildan 64000, 2 year warranty in EU and Northern Ireland as per Directive 1999/44/EC

Warnings, Hazard: For adults, Made in Bangladesh

Care instructions: Machine wash: cold (max 30C or 90F), with similar colors , Do not bleach, Tumble dry: low heat, Iron, steam or dry: low heat, Do not dryclean