A Better Way to Navigate Your TV

Having lots of television viewing options is great, but anyone who's struggled with a 30-button remote and pages after pages of ugly electronic program guides has to feel like there must be an easier way. Hillcrest Labs may just have found it.

Their navigation system is certainly more attractive than most, with both TV shows and movies represented with a photo of the star or from the DVD packaging.



Their remote, shaped like a loop, but not nearly as huge as it appears in this picture, can sense its position in the air, which means you can easily manuever an on-screen pointer as you would with a mouse.



On screen, you can bring up common functions like volume control and play, pause and stop just by moving the cursor to the side or bottom of the screen. Put it all together and it was easy to navigate with the remote's minimalist controls -- a scroll wheel and two buttons.

Hillcrest is looking to sell its navigation system to television providers like cable and satellite companies.