How about a screensaver that displays one BIG fullscreen picture every minute and the headline of the corresponding news in big letters. For a prototype use the architecture of
Jon Kossman's In-Pix (BBC News picture gallery viewer).
Great idea.
Sounds like something that may be subject to patents though...?
I completely agree. I've looked at that one, and I was sorely tempted to add it to an existing screensaver of mine that loads webpages as screensavers. It's nearly everything I'd want in a BBC screensaver, save for a bit of configurability. (The default choices are good, but it'd be great to pick from at least general categories.)
Hey man great idea! I thought about this myself...c u at u.s. patent registration.
I reckon that Jon Kossman's News Screen [1] would make a fantastic screensaver...
[1] - http://www.blugg.com/bbc/LCD1/BBC_NewsScreen_WORLD.html