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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...

August 2010.

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August 26, 2010

344 sq. ft. apartment transforms into 24 rooms [Video 4:03]
  • This video shows something that appears to be the epitome of spiffy. It could be the basis of living spaces in the short term future or the accommodations of a spacecraft in any future time period. This is maybe a little more geeky sharing than story fodder, but the application of such space saving function can, as indicated by the designer responsible for this, evoke a different mood depending on the audience. This is a matter of does it lend a warm and efficient feeling to the inhabitants, affecting their mood which in turn affects the reader, or does it feel cold and cramped creating that sort of feel.
  • Tags: design, differences, efficiency, future, mood, spaceship, time period, transformations.