SpiraClock: A Visualization Technique for Nearby Events

Wow, this video does it justice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_rOWDPCeI

I love the zoom on the clock here...I bet this could translate to touch devices really easily. First to implement this in Protovis (http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/) wins!

This is actually pretty cool (check out the YouTube video). I wish it was easier to add events.

The use case cited is bus schedules, but it is really quite broadly applicable. Any time you have something "coming up" you can see at a glance how much time you have left till then.

I think many more people would use this if it was turned into a product, rather than an SDK or a collection of .jars.

EDIT: Found it! Check out HeliCal: http://www.lri.fr/~dragice/helical/

I don't think it's meant to be used as a calendar, but to get,at a glance, information about your imediat free/busy time.

It is a very pretty way of representing events, but I'm not sure that it's terribly practical. For example a typical use case: Hi Jim, are you available this afternoon at 4pm for a meeting? Well, let me just check my spiraclock. Hmmm, where is 4pm on this thing???

Second paragraph says "A SpiraClock SDK is no available", which should very probably read "now". I first interpreted it as meaning that a previously-existing SDK has been taken down.