Microsoft’s Festival of Future.
So this link was sent out on one of the iSchool mailing lists and I couldn’t help but smile at the following excerpt:
Microsoft researchers have put a new twist on telling time, creating a digital wall clock with hands for each member of the family. Instead of numbers, the hands point to places  work, school, home  and can track a person’s location to show where he or she is at any time.
Oh snaps. Now read from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2):
Mrs. Weasley glanced at the grandfather clock in the corner. Harry liked this clock. It was completely useless if you wanted to know the time, but otherwise very informative. It had nine golden hands, and each of them was engraved with one of the Weasley family’s name. There were no numerals around the face, but descriptions of where each family member might be. “Home,” “school,” and “work” were there, but there was also “traveling,” “lost,” “hospital,” “prison,” and, in the position where the number twelve would be on a normal clock, “mortal peril”.
Ha! Bring on the magic, Microsoft.
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6 responses to “Grandfather Clock”
Oh snaps is right! Nice find Jamie. They should hire you at MS, I know you’ve memorized every Harry Potter book/movie… you’d be great in a think tank 🙂
HAHA That’s so awesome! OMG I’m just like.. wow.. hehe 😉
I guess Microsoft steals from everyone equally… fairy tales included. 😉
that would suck if those were the only places in life where you could be.
Well, if Microsoft is going to purloin the idea, the least they could do is give back to the wizard community and sponser the annual Quidditch cup for up and coming Thaumologists.
Just wait till they start making brooms! Oh snap!
Man, that wasn’t even CLOSE to funny… I gotta shut up…
lol, freaking awesome. you can use it to track your ninjas. Better yet, I can use it to track your ninjas.