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11-13-2007, 09:43 PM
| | |  Microsoft prototype works like Weasley Clock
We all know about the famous Weasley clock, which tells us where each member of the respective family is. Now, Microsoft Research Cambridge has developed a prototype that works in a similar way! Quote:
"You can buy a service on your phone to keep track of your kids. There is even talk about putting electronic chips into kids, which is not what we want to do at all," said Abigail Sellen, senior researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
"We wanted to build a device that was not too intrusive into people's lives, but at the same time recognized the importance of reassurance in a family."
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The Whereabouts Clock is a modified tablet PC that uses signal information from mobile phones and the network to locate family members. To use it, family members download a software application to their mobile phone.
After the software is installed, the first time a person arrives at work, home, or school, she presses the button in the application corresponding to those locations. That tells the software program to lock in on the signal from the nearest mobile phone tower and stores its ID.
You can read the full article here: Discovery News : Discovery Channel
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11-13-2007, 10:27 PM
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Thats kind of pretty cool xD
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11-13-2007, 10:59 PM
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Thats kinda cool.
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well I wouldn't want my mom to know where I am all the time, I mean I sometimes want to hide my whereabouts,
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11-14-2007, 04:27 AM
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... this is the kind of technologies all stalkers will be investing in That's awesome! So you actually have to pull out your phone and click on something so your whereabouts is known... hmm... seems to be a bit difficult to keep up with if that's what you have to do. You could go to school, say you're there, but instead you're at a friend's house or something.
LOL! That'd be sweet if it has 'mortal peril' on there!
But either way... yeah, it's cool how we can make technology do that kind of thing nowadays! 
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That's really cool but a bit intrusive for my liking.
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It's very interesting, but it'll never be quite the same as the Weasley clock  And I think that putting chips into children is a stupid and intrusive idea. | |
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11-14-2007, 11:15 AM
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oh god, thats cool!!! I always wanted a weasley clock!
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that is so cool!! ahaha, way to go HP! for giving microsoft an idea of something really worth making!! haha
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thats a bit creepy
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Electrinic chips into kids???????? Hello! We don't really wan't to be priosners! We want to have our own lives and get into trouble sometimes...  What kinda crazy idea is this?
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That actually sounds kind of cool. The only way that it would be invasion of privacy is if you are going somewhere your not supposed to. If your supposed to be at school go to school its as easy as that. My only problem is that it is bulky and unattracive. For everyone complaining about the invasion of privacy remember at least they gecided against the microchiping .
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Ok thats a bit creepy!
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Sort of a lo-Jack, huh?
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That's a world of NO. Privacy doesn't exist anymore, I swear. Something tells me the government would like using something like this to keep track of their citizens. *eye twitch*
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That sounds pretty cool, bit too intrusive for my liking though. | |
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thats cool...but chips into kids?
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