Here's a a fairly simple device. This is an an iPod from Apple. Um I think the main thing to notice about it is it just has four buttons. It's very minimalistic in its design. Uh you use these four buttons to m to move around a range of settings on the small L_C_D_ screen. Um  the thing I like about this is that it's very very quick to access the main features. Uh you can just about make out uh that the button  three buttons are uh previous track , next track and play pause. They're the main the main features of the iPod , the things you will use a all the time. Um then if you want to do anything more advanced , you go into the little menu on the L_C_D_ screen and you use the buttons just to scroll around and and find the more advanced features that you want. So I think that's that's a good a good kind of model that we could have. Um  here's a another example. This is uh  it's an interesting idea and I think i it looks pretty cool. Um it's certainly got novelty value.
Mm.
Uh it's nice and colourful , it's nice and bright. Uh it's also something that you can kind of feel your way around. The buttons are are different shapes and and you can sort of  yeah if you're watching T_V_ in the dark or whatever , you can work out which button's which and basically , yeah it's ith it's fun. So I  I like I like this idea of just having buttons for the features that you use most often. So you'd need a few buttons to select your favourite channels. I mean most people , when they watch T_V_ , they have two hundred and fifty channels on their T_V_ and they watch of 'bout four of them at the most. So , you have buttons for your favourite channel , changing the volume , which is something you do all the time when you're watching T_V_ , and the button to switch it off , in case you get bored. Um other features , things like adjusting the brightness , tuning the T_V_ , uh I don't know what else you do with a T_V_. Um but these are these are all necessary functions. Uh you can't have a t there's no point having a television that you can't tune or that you can't set the contrast , so we need to find a way of including these somehow. Um and one other suggestions I'd make is to in is to include in a menu system , a bit like on the iPod. So we'd either have a small L_C_D_ display on the device itself , or uh have a dis a menu display that comes up on your television and can b be controlled through the device.
Hmm.