Spectra newsreader

CNN news crawl, meet your younger, colorful, more animated brother. If you’ve ever said to yourself, “I hate reading the news. But if it were color coded by topic and then put into a swirling vortex of Flash animation, then maybe I’d know what the hell was going on in Myanmar. Behold, the Spectra newsreader from MSNBC, a visually stylized way for daily news junkies to manipulate their content. Select your top stories and the feed starts aggregating from MSNBC’s site. Click on a topic and it flips it open in a Today Show meets Minority Report fashion. Save your favorite stories, add channels, and customize your experience. We think it’s hot and all, but is this new and intuitive, or just simply some browser-candy?