feat: redesign pods page with enhanced UI and animations

- Replaced HomeBlink with HomeAurora component for improved visual experience
- Added PodCapabilities horizontal slider with interactive navigation controls
- Created PodsFeatures section showcasing use cases with hover animations
- Updated PodsHow layout with bullet points and new PodsFlow animation component

src/pages/home/HomePage.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { CallToAction } from './CallToAction'
 import { HomeTab } from './HomeTab'
 import { HomeMap } from './HomeMap' 
 import { HomeAudience } from './HomeAudience'
-import { HomeBlink } from './HomeBlink'
+import { HomeAurora } from './HomeAurora'
 import { HomeArchitecture } from './HomeArchitecture';
 
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export default function HomePage() {
   return (
     <div>
       <AnimatedSection>
-        <HomeBlink onGetStartedClick={handleScrollToSlider} />
+        <HomeAurora onGetStartedClick={handleScrollToSlider} />
       </AnimatedSection>
 
       <AnimatedSection>

src/pages/pods/PodCapabilities.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { useRef } from "react";
+import { Eyebrow, CP, CT, H4 } from "@/components/Texts";
+import { IoArrowBackOutline, IoArrowForwardOutline } from "react-icons/io5";
+
+import {
+  HomeModernIcon,
+  CpuChipIcon,
+  ServerStackIcon,
+  ShieldCheckIcon,
+} from "@heroicons/react/24/solid";
+
+const capabilities = [
+  {
+    isIntro: true,
+    eyebrow: "CAPABILITIES",
+    title: "What is a Pod?",
+    description: "",
+  },
+
+  {
+    title: "Your private digital home on the decentralized internet",
+    description:
+      "Your Pod is a private digital home where apps, data, and identity live independently of Big Tech and central servers.",
+    icon: (
+      <div className="flex items-start justify-start">
+        <HomeModernIcon className="h-12 w-12 text-cyan-400" />
+      </div>
+    ),
+  },
+
+  {
+    title: "An always-on space you fully control",
+    description:
+      "A dedicated, always-on environment you fully command — your own sovereign slice of the network that never goes offline.",
+    icon: (
+      <div className="flex items-start justify-start">
+        <CpuChipIcon className="h-12 w-12 text-cyan-400" />
+      </div>
+    ),
+  },
+
+  {
+    title: "Runs communication, storage, and collaboration tools",
+    description:
+      "Runs your communication, storage, and collaboration tools in a secure local environment without reliance on outside platforms.",
+    icon: (
+      <div className="flex items-start justify-start">
+        <ServerStackIcon className="h-12 w-12 text-cyan-400" />
+      </div>
+    ),
+  },
+
+  {
+    title: "Fully encrypted, federated peer-to-peer network",
+    description:
+      "Encrypted, federated peer-to-peer networking that links your Pod directly with trusted devices without intermediaries.",
+    icon: (
+      <div className="flex items-start justify-start">
+        <ShieldCheckIcon className="h-12 w-12 text-cyan-400" />
+      </div>
+    ),
+  },
+];
+
+export function PodCapabilities() {
+  const sliderRef = useRef<HTMLUListElement>(null);
+
+  const scrollLeft = () =>
+    sliderRef.current?.scrollBy({ left: -400, behavior: "smooth" });
+
+  const scrollRight = () =>
+    sliderRef.current?.scrollBy({ left: 400, behavior: "smooth" });
+
+  return (
+    <section className="bg-[#121212] w-full max-w-8xl mx-auto">
+      <div className="max-w-7xl mx-auto py-6 border border-t-0 border-b-0 border-gray-800" />
+      <div className="w-full border-t border-l border-r border-gray-800" />
+
+      <div className="relative mx-auto max-w-7xl border border-t-0 border-b-0 border-gray-800 bg-[#111111] overflow-hidden">
+        {/* Horizontal Slider */}
+        <ul
+          ref={sliderRef}
+          className="flex overflow-x-auto snap-x snap-mandatory scroll-smooth no-scrollbar"
+        >
+          {capabilities.map((item, idx) => (
+            <li
+              key={idx}
+              className={`snap-start shrink-0 w-[85%] sm:w-[50%] lg:w-[33%] border border-gray-800 p-10 relative ${
+                item.isIntro ? "" : "bg-[#111]/60"
+              }`}
+            >
+              {/* INTRO CARD */}
+              {item.isIntro ? (
+                <div className="flex flex-col justify-between h-full">
+                  <div>
+                    <Eyebrow>{item.eyebrow}</Eyebrow>
+                    <H4 className="text-white mt-0 max-w-lg">{item.title}</H4>
+                    <p className="text-gray-400 lg:text-lg text-sm leading-relaxed">
+                      {item.description}
+                    </p>
+                  </div>
+
+                  {/* Arrow controls */}
+                  <div className="flex items-center gap-x-4 mt-2">
+                    <button
+                      onClick={scrollLeft}
+                      className="h-8 w-8 flex items-center justify-center border border-gray-800 rounded-md hover:border-cyan-500 transition-colors"
+                    >
+                      <IoArrowBackOutline className="text-gray-300" size={16} />
+                    </button>
+
+                    <button
+                      onClick={scrollRight}
+                      className="h-8 w-8 flex items-center justify-center border border-gray-800 rounded-md hover:border-cyan-500 transition-colors"
+                    >
+                      <IoArrowForwardOutline
+                        className="text-gray-300"
+                        size={16}
+                      />
+                    </button>
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+              ) : (
+                <>
+                  {/* LEFT-ALIGNED ICON */}
+                  {item.icon}
+
+                  <br />
+
+                  {/* LEFT-ALIGNED TEXT */}
+                  <CT className="font-semibold leading-tight text-white text-left">
+                    {item.title}
+                  </CT>
+
+                  <CP className="mt-2 text-gray-400  text-left">
+                    {item.description}
+                  </CP>
+                </>
+              )}
+            </li>
+          ))}
+        </ul>
+      </div>
+
+      <div className="w-full border-b border-gray-800" />
+      <div className="max-w-7xl mx-auto py-6 border border-t-0 border-b-0 border-gray-800" />
+    </section>
+  );
+}

src/pages/pods/PodsFeatures.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { Container } from "@/components/Container";
+import { CP, Small } from "@/components/Texts";
+
+const useCases = [
+  {
+    title: "Private Messaging & Calling",
+    description:
+      "Communicate directly Pod-to-Pod with no centralized routing.",
+    bullets: [
+      "End-to-end encrypted messaging and voice calling.",
+      "No intermediaries — connections flow directly between Pods.",
+      "Zero metadata profiling, tracking, or data resale.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Safe File Storage & Sharing",
+    description:
+      "Store and share files securely without exposing data to third parties.",
+    bullets: [
+      "Files remain private with no platform-level scanning or analysis.",
+      "Share documents and media directly with trusted contacts.",
+      "Full ownership of your content — no cloud vendor dependencies.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Personal Calendar & Meetings",
+    description:
+      "Manage your schedule within your own sovereign digital space.",
+    bullets: [
+      "Keep events, appointments, and reminders fully private.",
+      "Coordinate calls and meetings entirely inside your Pod.",
+      "No syncing with external servers or corporate platforms.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Private Communities & Teams",
+    description:
+      "Create groups or collaborative spaces without platform ownership.",
+    bullets: [
+      "Form teams, friendship circles, and micro-communities.",
+      "All interactions occur directly Pod-to-Pod.",
+      "No hosting company or service provider controls your group data.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Quantum Safe File System (QSFS)",
+    description:
+      "Store data using a self-healing, encrypted, quantum-resistant system.",
+    bullets: [
+      "Files are encrypted, split, and distributed across trusted nodes.",
+      "Designed to withstand future quantum-level attacks.",
+      "Automatic repair and reconstruction of data fragments.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Access From Any Device",
+    description:
+      "Your Pod travels with you — always accessible, always yours.",
+    bullets: [
+      "Use your Pod from phones, laptops, tablets, or shared machines.",
+      "Your identity, apps, and files follow you securely.",
+      "No syncing or duplicated copies — direct access to your environment.",
+    ],
+  },
+];
+
+export function PodsFeatures() {
+  return (
+    <section className="w-full max-w-8xl mx-auto bg-transparent">
+      {/* Top horizontal spacing */}
+      <div className="max-w-7xl bg-transparent mx-auto py-6 border border-t-0 border-b-0 border-gray-100"></div>
+      <div className="w-full border-t border-l border-r border-gray-100" />
+
+      <Container className="py-12 border border-t-0 border-b-0 border-gray-100">
+        {/* Header */}
+        <div className="mx-auto max-w-4xl sm:text-center">
+          <h2 className="text-base/7 font-semibold text-cyan-500">
+            WHAT YOU CAN DO
+          </h2>
+
+          <p className="text-3xl lg:text-4xl font-medium tracking-tight text-gray-900">
+            A Fully Personal, Sovereign Digital Environment
+          </p>
+
+          <p className="mt-6 text-lg text-gray-600">
+            A Pod gives you a secure digital home where communication, storage,
+            identity, and collaboration remain fully under your control. 
+          </p>
+        </div>
+
+        {/* Cards */}
+        <ul
+          role="list"
+          className="mx-auto mt-12 grid max-w-2xl grid-cols-1 gap-6
+                     sm:grid-cols-2 lg:max-w-none lg:grid-cols-3 md:gap-y-10"
+        >
+          {useCases.map((useCase) => (
+            <li
+              key={useCase.title}
+              className="rounded-md border border-gray-100 bg-white p-6 transition-all duration-300
+                         hover:scale-105 hover:border-cyan-500 hover:shadow-lg hover:shadow-cyan-500/20 flex flex-col"
+            >
+              {/* Title + label */}
+              <div className="flex items-center justify-between">
+                <h3 className="font-semibold text-gray-900">
+                  {useCase.title}
+                </h3>
+                <Small className="uppercase tracking-[0.25em] text-cyan-500">
+                  Feature
+                </Small>
+              </div>
+
+              {/* Short description */}
+              <p className="mt-4 text-gray-700 leading-snug">
+                {useCase.description}
+              </p>
+
+              {/* Bullet list */}
+              <ul className="mt-6 space-y-3 text-sm text-gray-600">
+                {useCase.bullets.map((bullet) => (
+                  <li
+                    key={bullet}
+                    className="flex items-start gap-3 rounded-2xl border border-cyan-100 bg-cyan-50/60 p-3 leading-relaxed"
+                  >
+                    <span className="mt-1 inline-block size-2 rounded-full bg-cyan-500" />
+                    <span>{bullet}</span>
+                  </li>
+                ))}
+              </ul>
+            </li>
+          ))}
+        </ul>
+      </Container>
+
+      {/* Bottom spacing */}
+      <div className="w-full border-b border-gray-100" />
+      <div className="max-w-7xl bg-transparent mx-auto py-6 border border-t-0 border-b-0 border-gray-100"></div>
+    </section>
+  );
+}

src/pages/pods/PodsHow.tsx

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 "use client";
 
 import { Eyebrow, H3, P } from "@/components/Texts";
-import CloudPods from "./animations/CloudPods";
+import PodsFlow from "./animations/PodsFlow";
 
 export function PodsHow() {
   return (
@@ -13,34 +13,40 @@ export function PodsHow() {
       <div className="max-w-7xl mx-auto px-6 lg:px-8 py-12 border border-t-0 border-b-0 border-gray-800 bg-[#111111] overflow-hidden">
 
         {/* ✅ Two-column layout */}
-        <div className="flex flex-col lg:flex-row-reverse gap-16">
+        <div className="flex flex-col lg:flex-row-reverse gap-8">
 
           {/* ✅ Right side animation */}
-          <div className="w-full lg:w-1/2">
-            <CloudPods />
+          <div className="w-full lg:w-4/9">
+            <PodsFlow />
           </div>
 
           {/* ✅ Left side content */}
-          <div className="w-full lg:w-1/2 text-white">
+          <div className="w-full lg:w-5/9 text-white">
             <Eyebrow color="accent" className="">
               How it works
             </Eyebrow>
             <H3 color="white" className="mt-6">
-              What Living in a Pod Feels Like
+              Living in a Pod 
             </H3>
-            <P className="max-w-3xl text-gray-400 mt-6">
+            <P className="max-w-4xl text-gray-400 mt-6">
               When you use Mycelium, everything — your messages, calls, files — runs directly from your Pod.
             </P>
+            <ul className="max-w-4xl text-gray-400 mt-6 space-y-3 ml-4">
+              <li className="flex items-start gap-3">
+                <span className="mt-1.5 inline-block size-2 rounded-full bg-cyan-400" />
+                <span>When you message someone, it goes Pod to Pod, not through a central server.</span>
+              </li>
+              <li className="flex items-start gap-3">
+                <span className="mt-1.5 inline-block size-2 rounded-full bg-cyan-400" />
+                <span>When you host a call, it runs on your Pod — no third-party data centers.</span>
+              </li>
+              <li className="flex items-start gap-3">
+                <span className="mt-1.5 inline-block size-2 rounded-full bg-cyan-400" />
+                <span>When you save a file, it stays on your Pod, encrypted and always available.</span>
+              </li>
+            </ul>
             <P className="max-w-3xl text-gray-400 mt-4">
-              It’s your personal digital hub:
-              When you message someone, it goes Pod to Pod, not through a central server.
-              When you host a call, it runs on your Pod — no third-party data centers.
-            </P>
-            <P className="max-w-3xl text-gray-400 mt-4">
-              When you save a file, it stays on your Pod, encrypted and always available.
               No one else can read it, rent it, or switch it off.
-            </P>
-            <P className="max-w-3xl text-gray-400 mt-4">
               You don’t log in to the internet — you are part of it.
             </P>
           </div>

src/pages/pods/PodsPage.tsx

@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 import Homepod from './Homepod';
-import { PodsCapabilities } from './PodsCapabilities';
+import { PodCapabilities } from './PodCapabilities';
 import { PodsHow } from './PodsHow';
+import { PodsFeatures } from './PodsFeatures';
 
 const PodsPage = () => {
   return (
     <>
             <Homepod />
-            <PodsCapabilities />
-      <PodsHow />
+            <PodCapabilities />
+            <PodsFeatures />
+            <PodsHow />
     </>
   );
 };

src/pages/pods/animations/PodsFlow.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { motion } from "framer-motion";
+import clsx from "clsx";
+
+type Props = {
+  className?: string;
+  accent?: string;
+  gridStroke?: string;
+};
+
+const W = 760;
+const H = 420;
+
+export default function PodsFlow({
+  className,
+  accent = "#00b8db",
+  gridStroke = "#2b2a2a",
+}: Props) {
+  const pods = [
+    { x: 100, y: 180, label: "Pod 1" },
+    { x: 260, y: 180, label: "Pod 2" },
+    { x: 420, y: 180, label: "Pod 3" },
+    { x: 580, y: 180, label: "Pod 4" },
+  ];
+
+  // Pulse path
+  const path = `
+    M ${pods[0].x + 80} ${pods[0].y + 40}
+    L ${pods[1].x - 10} ${pods[1].y + 40}
+    L ${pods[1].x + 80} ${pods[1].y + 40}
+    L ${pods[2].x - 10} ${pods[2].y + 40}
+    L ${pods[2].x + 80} ${pods[2].y + 40}
+    L ${pods[3].x - 10} ${pods[3].y + 40}
+  `;
+
+  // Arrow segments
+  const arrows = [
+    {
+      d: `M ${pods[0].x + 80} ${pods[0].y + 40} L ${pods[1].x - 6} ${pods[1].y + 40}`,
+      end: { x: pods[1].x - 6, y: pods[1].y + 40 },
+    },
+    {
+      d: `M ${pods[1].x + 80} ${pods[1].y + 40} L ${pods[2].x - 6} ${pods[2].y + 40}`,
+      end: { x: pods[2].x - 6, y: pods[2].y + 40 },
+    },
+    {
+      d: `M ${pods[2].x + 80} ${pods[2].y + 40} L ${pods[3].x - 6} ${pods[3].y + 40}`,
+      end: { x: pods[3].x - 6, y: pods[3].y + 40 },
+    },
+  ];
+
+  return (
+    <div
+      className={clsx("relative overflow-hidden", className)}
+      aria-hidden="true"
+      role="img"
+      aria-label="Pod-to-Pod signal transfer animation"
+      style={{ background: "transparent" }}
+    >
+      <svg viewBox={`0 0 ${W} ${H}`} className="w-full h-full">
+        {/* GRID BG */}
+        <defs>
+          <pattern id="pods-grid" width="28" height="28" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
+            <path d="M 28 0 L 0 0 0 28" fill="none" stroke={gridStroke} strokeWidth="1" opacity="0.6" />
+          </pattern>
+
+          <filter id="pods-glow">
+            <feGaussianBlur stdDeviation="4" result="blur" />
+            <feMerge>
+              <feMergeNode in="blur" />
+              <feMergeNode in="SourceGraphic" />
+            </feMerge>
+          </filter>
+        </defs>
+
+        <rect width={W} height={H} fill="url(#pods-grid)" />
+
+        {/* POD BOXES */}
+        {pods.map((p, i) => (
+          <motion.rect
+            key={i}
+            x={p.x}
+            y={p.y}
+            width={80}
+            height={80}
+            rx={14}
+            fill="#0d0d0d"
+            stroke="#1a1a1a"
+            strokeWidth={2}
+            initial={{ opacity: 0 }}
+            animate={{ opacity: 0.9 }}
+            transition={{ duration: 0.5 + i * 0.15 }}
+          />
+        ))}
+
+        {/* POD LABELS */}
+        {pods.map((p, i) => (
+          <motion.text
+            key={i}
+            x={p.x + 40}
+            y={p.y + 50}
+            textAnchor="middle"
+            fontSize="14"
+            fontFamily="Inter, sans-serif"
+            fill="#9ca3af"
+            initial={{ opacity: 0 }}
+            animate={{ opacity: 0.9 }}
+            transition={{ delay: 0.1 + i * 0.1, duration: 0.6 }}
+          >
+            {p.label}
+          </motion.text>
+        ))}
+
+        {/* GREY LINES */}
+        {arrows.map((a, i) => (
+          <motion.path
+            key={`grey-${i}`}
+            d={a.d}
+            stroke="#333"
+            strokeWidth={4}
+            strokeLinecap="round"
+            fill="none"
+            initial={{ pathLength: 0, opacity: 0 }}
+            animate={{ pathLength: 1, opacity: 0.8 }}
+            transition={{ delay: 0.2 * i, duration: 0.7 }}
+          />
+        ))}
+
+        {/* CYAN LINES */}
+        {arrows.map((a, i) => (
+          <motion.path
+            key={`cyan-${i}`}
+            d={a.d}
+            stroke={accent}
+            strokeWidth={2}
+            strokeLinecap="round"
+            strokeDasharray="10"
+            fill="none"
+            initial={{ pathLength: 0, opacity: 0 }}
+            animate={{ pathLength: 1, opacity: 1 }}
+            transition={{ delay: 0.25 * i, duration: 0.7 }}
+          />
+        ))}
+
+        {/* NEW: CYAN ENDPOINT PULSES */}
+        {arrows.map((a, i) => (
+          <motion.circle
+            key={`endpoint-${i}`}
+            cx={a.end.x}
+            cy={a.end.y}
+            r={10}
+            fill={accent}
+            opacity={0.12}
+            filter="url(#pods-glow)"
+            initial={{ scale: 0.8, opacity: 0 }}
+            animate={{
+              scale: [1, 1.2, 1],
+              opacity: [0.05, 0.25, 0.05],
+            }}
+            transition={{
+              duration: 1.5,
+              delay: i * 0.2,
+              repeat: Infinity,
+              repeatType: "mirror",
+            }}
+          />
+        ))}
+
+        {/* MAIN MOVING CYAN PULSE */}
+        <motion.circle
+          r={8}
+          fill={accent}
+          filter="url(#pods-glow)"
+          style={{
+            offsetPath: `path('${path.replace(/\s+/g, " ")}')`,
+          }}
+          initial={{ offsetDistance: "0%", opacity: 0.4 }}
+          animate={{
+            offsetDistance: ["0%", "100%"],
+            opacity: [0.4, 1, 0.4],
+          }}
+          transition={{
+            duration: 2.6,
+            repeat: Infinity,
+            ease: "linear",
+          }}
+        />
+      </svg>
+    </div>
+  );
+}