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Ever heard of Yoichi Ochiai? You have now. Hailing from Japan’s University of Tsukuba, this whizkid was on hand here at SIGGRAPH to showcase one of his latest creations — and it just so happened to be one of the trippiest yet. The Cyclone Display was a demonstration focused on visual stimulation; a projector shown above interacted with a plate of spinning disks. Underneath, a cadre of motors were controlled by a connected computer, and as the rotation and velocity changed, so did the perceived pixels and colors. The next step, according to Ochiai, would be to blow this up and shrink it down, mixing textures in with different lighting situations. With a little help, a drab nightclub could douse its walls in leopard print one night, or zebra fur another. Interactive clubbing never sounded so fun, eh? You know the drill — gallery’s below, video’s a click beneath.

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Netflix subscribers and Windows Vista Media Center users now have at their disposal an awesome plug-in that is available as a public beta.  It’s hard to believe that this hasn’t been done before (at least to my knowledge) because it’s extremely useful. The biggest and most useful feature for most of you will be the fact that the MyNetflix plug-in adds “Watch Now” support to Media Center.  That means you can stream the Watch Now movies in Media Center, removing the need to use the Netflix application. Cool, huh?

Like I said, the Watch Now feature is probably the one that will make you want to download the plug-in, but it does offer additional features that I think you’ll enjoy. They include:

• View your Netflix queue
• Browse movies by genre, top 100, new titles, etc
• View your history and recommendations
• Add movies to your queue
• Remove movies form your queue
• Move movies to the top of your queue
• Browse “watch now” movies

I’ve read that some people run into issues when they try to view the “Watch Now” movies full screen which is something that shows this plug-in is still in beta and still has work to be done.  Other than that, there’s been more praise than complaints from people who think it’s absolutely amazing. The developer has done some great work so far and it’ll be interesting to see how he fine-tunes it over the next several months to make it even better.

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Worried that Netflix isn’t doing enough to appeal to the under-10 set? Good news, the movie rental giant has begun testing a “Just for Kids” section, rolling out the feature to a limited number of subscribers. Eligible users will find a tab just to the right of the Watch Instantly button. At the top of the new page is a series of familiar children’s characters, including the likes of Spongebob, Popeye, and, yep, the Jonas Brothers. Each character has its own landing page with easily accessible content. We reached out to Netflix for more information on the matter, and the company would only confirm that the feature is still in testing mode. Given the amount of nostalgia currently available, we suspect that kids of all ages will be pitching in with the trial.

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