I ran across this interesting article that talked about how to create a content slider that auto-plays items from a list. You can find it here on EndUserSharePoint.com.It uses plugins such as jQuery and SPServices to pull this off.

Everything was client side, so you don’t have to install anything on the server. With the SPServices plug in, you can target items on SharePoint by defining list and libraries. Styling and positing was created with CSS and HTML. From there, CAML was used to filter the information that was needed.

I’m not gonna lie, this is pretty slick. I just had a request similar to this come across my desk and I’ll be looking at this as a possible solution.