Well, if you 'really' wanted to be geeky....

X10 currently has a fire sale on their Icon RF remote, that has a decent backlit LCD and lots of buttons ... $29

I pulled apart a non-rf version, and it's very roomy inside. The LCD is on a ribbon cable, and the connector would be salvageable with a rework station.

http://www.x10.com/promotions/ir32a_ed_2999_0629_tag_final.html?HM


Microchip has just released a new PIC with an integrated LCD controller and USB OTG.  They also have a free graphics library available ( free IDE and C compiler too ).  ... $7.15 ...
http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en547868



Microchip also has a WiFi module and free TCP/IP stack ..  $29.40

www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx


Well, you'd have to buy a programmer / debugger too ( if you don't already have one, or don't want to be 'really really' geeky and build one ) .. so you'd probably have to fork out $34.99

www.microchipdirect.com/productsearch.aspx



Add about $20 for various other electronic glue you need

And then about another $50 to spin a board using the free Lite version of Eagle PCB design software and sparkfun's BatchPCB service.  ( of course, your first spin of the board will work perfectly )

batchpcb.com/index.php/Products


So, for $175.10 ( plus shipping and taxes ) you have your dream LCD Wifi remote!  ( oh yeah, plus the 2000 hours or so of hardware debugging and firmware development - but that's what being a hacker is all about isn't it?).

If I didn't have a number of other projects on the go, I'd be tempted!

Jonathan