so I thought maybe we could put a little battery life-light on it that kind of goes dimmer and dimmer and dimmer as your battery is  starts to die. And in terms of invisible features , audio and um tactile feedback on button presses and , like you said , speech recognition.
Mm-hmm.
So , in terms of what this thing would actually look like
Despite working in interface design , I'm not the greatest artist in the world , so you'll have to forgive me.   You'd have something like this with an on-off switch fairly big , sort of in the corner and by itself , so you don't accidentally turn your T_V_ off while you're trying to manoeuvre other buttons. And then you have sort of one of those toggle displays for , oops , channels and volume , sort of for surfing channels and then volume , so the volume would be the up and down , 'cause volume goes up and down and then channels left to right. And then here you'd have your sort of standard , telephonish number pad.  And then on one side you would have an access to the menu on your T_V_