An item that most of us would have wish to avoid when we were younger is an item that is of great enjoyment now.  If there was only more time to spend digging through the vast amount of resources now available up on the internet.  Items of current interest are here.

Game Development

The pinnacle of programming usually reserved for only the best, the release of new libraries and systems from Microsoft bring the ability to generate games for the Xbox closer to the masses.  Here we research the details for building games of a particular adventuring style genre.

Medical – CRPS, Diet, TSI, Nervous System, Pain Management

An area that is rather dear to me, the issues of Carpel Tunnel, and other RSI related injuries.  Everything from causes, to preventative measures, results of surgeries and statistics on such.  In this industry its becoming far more then just an occupational hazard; it can be a forced early retirement.

Robotics

From Lego Mindstorms and Heathkit Hero’s to Honda and other custom hobby systems. 

Voice Code

As the name describes its using your voice to code software; an extension to speech recognition.  Coding via speech recognition has usually been a daunting task.  Though voice recognition has come far in the way of command handling and dictation even a simple ‘for’ loop can be a very wordy sentence to try to speak.  For example:  “for open paren i equals 0 semi-colon i is less then object period get length open paren close paren semicolon i plus plus close paren’”  Voice Code is the research on ways to optimize this using current technologies.

Voice Recognition

Typical speech recognition (SR) items such as dictation and voice command.  Since Microsoft Office 2003, their paritcular SR engine has continued to improve.  The out of the box accuracy with a decent headset in vista and a simple five minute training session is excellent.  A good microphone is key.  Windows 7 expands on this.  Other products like Dragon Dictate are also excellent choices as well.