Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Netflix imagines a world where you search for shows with Morse code

Twice a year, Netflix’s designers and engineers take a day off from regular work to put together the most innovative and unnecessary inventions they can imagine. It’s called a Hack Day, and in the past, they’ve made a version of House of Cards play on the original NES, turned Netflix into an old-school video rental store with the HTC Vive, and reimagined Narcos as a video game called Plata o Plomo.

The most recent Hack Day — hosted from August 17th to August 18th at Netflix’s headquarters in Los Gatos, California — turned out another crop of nostalgia-steeped ideas. A project called Teleflix wired a Raspberry Pi to a vintage AT&T telegraph key, translating an input of Morse code into USB keyboard scancodes. The aim there was to make a...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/8/29/16221508/netflix-hack-day-summer-2018-teleflix-spookyflix-raspberry-pi

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/08/netflix-imagines-world-where-you-search.html

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