Scientists create Harry Potter style clock that tracks family members

It seems that Harry Potter mania has hit the scientists too, for they have created a clock that helps track family members.

In the Harry Potter stories, Ron Weasley's family of pureblood wizards has a magic clock with hands assigned to each family member, indicating their location and now the new prototype device from Microsoft Research Cambridge does a similar thing.

Researchers have christened it as the 'whereabout clock,' which enables family members to trace where others are in four broad categories - 'home,' 'work,' 'school' and 'elsewhere.'

However, the creators are expecting that the general nature of the clock's locations overcomes some of the privacy problems that the researchers believe have impeded other location-based services from becoming more prevalent in the marketplace.

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