1. A method comprising: establishing a communications pathway between a data handling system and a physical input device, wherein the data handling system comprises one or more processors, one or more memories, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more memories, wherein at least one of the one or more processors execute the program instructions, wherein said physical input device is a physical object having N faces along an axis of rotation; presenting within a field of a graphical user interface a content item from an ordered dataset of content items of the data handling system, wherein a number of discrete items in the ordered dataset of content items is M, where M is greater than N; detecting rotations of the physical object along the axis of rotation, wherein each rotation of one of the N faces results in a navigation through the ordered dataset of content items; and responsive to each navigation through the ordered dataset of content items results in a corresponding presentation of the navigated to one of the content items within the field.