Clocking on with King Jim's QR code clock

A product that is both a timely update to the venerable punch-card and a tool to further enslave us to our corporate masters, King Jim's Clock On CLQ1 is the world's first clock to display the time as a QR code. The idea is to have peons scan the codes into their barcode-reading cellphones and clock in by sending the information contained therein to HQ using a Java app. Unfortunately for the creatively-minded among you, the clock itself is radio-synced and therefore manual meddling with the time settings is out.

The Clock On is mainly intended for outsourced staff, medical care workers and home teachers who're hard to keep track of, we're told. (Memo to King Jim marketing dept.: idea of tracking teachers in this way does not scale; meditate on word "home"). No information on pricing, or whether the QR codes can be hacked to show you working a 9 to 5 in a Chiba nursing home while you sit drinking beer under a tree somewhere.

[KING JIM Product page (Japanese)]

[Via Slashdot-J (Japanese)]