“For my parent’s 35th wedding anniversary we decided the perfect gift would be a device that gives them peace-of-mind something that keeps them connected to their adult children without requiring invasive tracking. “The idea for the Eta Clock started two years ago when we wanted a way for our parents to feel connected to our lives without sacrificing our privacy,” co-founder Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumna, told Digital Trends. (The only slight issue is that the clock doesn’t also tell the time.) As people move around through the day, an Eta app on their phones sends geolocation coordinates to a secure server, which then relays these coordinate to the Eta Clock device to adjust its hands. Each colored hand represents a person you care about, while each segment of the clock face corresponds to a destination.

Much like the Weasley family’s magic clock from the Harry Potter series, the Eta Clock moves its hands to reveal where people are, using icons instead of hourly numerals. That is something a new Kickstarter product called the Eta Clock plans to set straight. What most of them can’t do is to tell you where your loved ones are. Fitbit Versa 3īased on its time zone, a regular clock can give you some idea of where in the world you are, narrowed down to the nearest 1,000 miles.

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