A local company wants to put a little of the Harry Potter magic into your next wall calendar. OneFire, a high-tech firm located at the Peoria NEXT Innovation Center, 801 W. Main St., wants to make those calendar images come alive with the use of their smartphone app. The 2014 wall calendar that OneFire seeks to produce — with the help of funding from Kickstarter.com — contains pretty pictures from around the world: sunsets, majestic vistas and so forth. But when you point your app-equipped smartphone at the picture, things start happening, reminiscent of the framed pictures in the Harry Potter series.

Google Glass, the much-celebrated effort to bring the Internet into view — through a pair of glasses — is now being used and demonstrated by a Peoria start-up company. Anton Peck, a technologist at OneFire Inc., 801 W. Main St., flew to New York last week to pick up the sought-after glasses. “You basically had to enter a contest saying what you planned to do with the glasses,” said Peck, noting that he planned to let his disabled daughter try the glasses in order to get an expanded view of the product.