Hello, I am Robert G. Male. Welcome to TechStop™. Here you will find links that I think are of interest. Furthermore these are links that I want to keep track of because they have given me either ideas or some other form of inspiration for my writing. Links are listed in order lowest to highest both in the date they are given and the order in which they appear (meaning: read them from the bottom up for a certain day's list). Some of these sites may require you to sign up for free. Without further ado, the links...

July 2009.

July 23, 2009

• Talk about your vicious circles. This look at weather's own impact on global warming is interesting to say the least. As the article does, leave out discussing other factors especially potential triggers and just consider how the engine that is weather works. Understanding something like this has limited appeal to fiction, but it is, there, especially in designing settings and determining what it means for the environments within the story.

• Augmented reality is a hot topic on here, and there's a lot more of it to come, because it is a hot topic overall. This application takes video from your device, your position on GPS, and the direction your device is looking to tell you things about your location that you might want to know. This has always been the major goal of the technology for the commercial sector. You can see where local stores are, restaurants, event locations, and tourist attractions. With apps like this even more detailed knowledge is available--basically anything available in wikipedia and many information sources beyond that, however many are available to your services.

• This appears to be an important advancement in the field of robotics. Depth sense and pattern recognition are what they are touting here. The ability to act on gestures is of course trivial once the gesture is recognised. Military applications are the first use for understanding gestures with the robot to act upon the same non-verbal shorthand as other soldiers. In the civilian sector the hearing impaired will benefit from the pattern recognition without even the robot--using it for advanced computer use beyond the gesture computing the rest of us will use.

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