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A designer’s quest to make a better Netflix app

How would Netflix’s iPad app look like if you scrapped everything and restarted from scratch? That’s exactly what Joel Grenier, director of UX for the Ottawa-based design agency YOU i Labs did.

“Now that I use Netflix every day and love the service on many levels, I find myself frustrated with the current state of the application experience and design,” he wrote in a blog post earlier this month. That’s why he came up with a very different approach.

Grenier’s prototype comes complete with a sign-in option for personalized profiles — which Netflix is set to roll out in the coming months — custom artwork for movies and TV show pages, the ability to drag and drop titles for custom watch

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Invisibility cloaks a step closer


It doesn't look as cool as Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, but this is real science, not movie magic.

(CNN) — Some scientists seem to take their cues from science fiction or fantasy novels.

Physicists in Texas have developed a method to make objects “invisible” within a limited range of light waves. It’s not Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just yet, but scientists say it has a lot of potential.

The desire to become invisible dates back to the ancient Greeks, if not further. In mythological literature, gods and goddesses donned a headdress to disappear from sight. Like Potter’s cloak, the “cap of invisibility” was imbued with magical powers.

A fixture in magic, the invisibility cloak has now advanced to science.


New technology makes troops

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Scientists come closer to ‘invisibility cloak’


It doesn't look as cool as Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, but this is real science, not movie magic.

(CNN) — Some scientists seem to take their cues from science fiction or fantasy novels.

Physicists in Texas have developed a method to make objects “invisible” within a limited range of light waves. It’s not Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just yet, but scientists say it has a lot of potential.

The desire to become invisible dates back to the ancient Greeks, if not further. In mythological literature, gods and goddesses donned a headdress to disappear from sight. Like Potter’s cloak, the “cap of invisibility” was imbued with magical powers.

A fixture in magic, the invisibility cloak has now advanced to science.


New technology makes troops

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Scientists closer to ‘invisibility cloak’


It doesn't look as cool as Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, but this is real science, not movie magic.

(CNN) — Some scientists seem to take their cues from science fiction or fantasy novels.

Physicists in Texas have developed a method to make objects “invisible” within a limited range of light waves. It’s not Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just yet, but scientists say it has a lot of potential.

The desire to become invisible dates back to the ancient Greeks, if not further. In mythological literature, gods and goddesses donned a headdress to disappear from sight. Like Potter’s cloak, the “cap of invisibility” was imbued with magical powers.

A fixture in magic, the invisibility cloak has now advanced to science.


New technology makes troops

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_technology/~3/c4V3FbYY9zM/index.html

Scientists closer to ‘invisibility cloak’


It doesn't look as cool as Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, but this is real science, not movie magic.

(CNN) — Some scientists seem to take their cues from science fiction or fantasy novels.

Physicists in Texas have developed a method to make objects “invisible” within a limited range of light waves. It’s not Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just yet, but scientists say it has a lot of potential.

The desire to become invisible dates back to the ancient Greeks, if not further. In mythological literature, gods and goddesses donned a headdress to disappear from sight. Like Potter’s cloak, the “cap of invisibility” was imbued with magical powers.

A fixture in magic, the invisibility cloak has now advanced to science.


New technology makes troops

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_technology/~3/c4V3FbYY9zM/index.html