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I visited that page in both Chrome & FF and see no use of parallax scrolling. This is a good example of parallax scrolling:

http://www.firewatchgame.com/

The Verge's Apple Watch review will probably blow your mind, then: http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review

The parallax scrolling on that page is mediocre IMO.

It's unnoticeable when not using smooth scrolling (my personal default). Not a huge problem for a design feature to be unnoticeable though.

When smooth-scrolling using the middle mouse button on Chrome/Linux, it doesn't update dynamically as it scrolls; the background snaps into position when scrolling stops. In Firefox/Linux, it does update dynamically with middle mouse smooth scrolling, but jerkily. It's noticeably bad in both browsers.

What's so special about it? Seems pretty typical to me.