Give up. Stop trying to innovate.

Living rooms are graveyards of failure. Look at all those inadequate TV remotes, dotting the landscape like headstones: HERE LIES INNOVATION. As Homo televisionus evolves from a passive consumer to an active shaper of his own on-demand destiny, the perfect TV/human interface remains elusive, evasive, perhaps an unattainable fantasy.

Until now.

What would the perfect TV interaction device offer? Precision. Accuracy. Instantaneous speed. A range of functions as wide as the choice before us in a multi-omnivorous media landscape. Some damn way to move a cursor around the screen, because seriously, you can’t make us click some stupid arrow over and over anymore. We’re done with that.

Ergonomic seductiveness, so when you’re using it you cannot tell where flesh ends and machine begins. And tactile feedback, where every interaction affirms, in a way a touchscreen cannot, that you have done something. You have willed your desires into being. You exist. You are.

And finally, its form should preserve and cherish the organic bond between viewer and viewed, between show and shown, between TV and person yelling at the TV. Meaning, no voice commands. I’m not yelling at the TV because I want something to happen. Duh.

Today that device moves from fantasy to reality. Henceforth the world will be forever altered by a revolutionary new paradigm for interacting with the televisual plane:

A keyboard.

The IOGEAR Multimedia Keyboard brings a laser trackball, scroll wheel, and assloads of buttons to bear on this eternal quest. It’s slim. It’s wireless. It’s ergonomic. It simultaneously sums up and transcends decades of accumulated wisdom about interacting with the TV. Because we believe in changing more than just the channel.

Also a TV is like a big computer, so, you know, a keyboard just kind of made sense.