eye candy /i:' kand`ee/ n.
[from mainstream slang "ear candy"] A display of some sort
that's presented to lusers to keep
them distracted while the program performs necessary background
tasks. "Give 'em some eye candy while the back-end slurps that BLOB into
core." Reported as mainstream usage among players of
graphics-heavy computer games. We're also told this term is
mainstream slang for soft pornography, but that sense does not
appear to be live among hackers.