Google announced today a brand new way to be a couch potato. Google TV will allow regular ol’ potatoes like me to make the transition to full blow couch potatohood by offering web videos on the TV, rather than your measly 15 laptop inch monitor (with 23″ external monitor?).

Instead of watching videos on your laptop, Google is commanding us to search through millions of videos online using their service. In addition, they have some kind of integration with satellite and cable TV that I don’t understand yet. TVs will start shipping with this new Google service built in and ready to go, and Logitech is making a special companion box for those who don’t have a new TV.

Watch Google’s announcement video.

So there you have it. Google is taking over the world, one household appliance at a time. I’m pumped.