This keyboard could make typing on TVs a lot easier

Have you ever let out an audible groan when an app on your TV asks you to type something?

It’s never fun having to navigate an on-screen keyboard using only the directional pad on a remote control, but Direction9 has a plan to make it more tolerable. At CES 2025, the company was demonstrating a software keyboard that resembles the T9 format on old cellphones with physical numeric keys. By combining this layout with text prediction, it lets you type quickly on TVs without as much clicking around.