Have any good sites that are not Shadowrun but provide information on technology that would help players get more information?

I found this site on UAV's. It is a good one for modern day air drones. Gives stats on mostly all known uavs today.

NASA uav website
through its links, the site can lead u to this:
missiles, drones, and uavs

Please list any non-shadowrun tech sites that would work well with Shadowrun.

National Nanotechnology Initiative

If anyone lists Slashdot, I will stab them.

~J

...in the Face! Through the Internet!

Yes. My arm will reach out their modem and stab them. It will go through their LAN if they have one. No firewall can block me, for I come on port -42!

~J

I see a hand, I'm turning off the modem.

I see a hand coming out of my computer, I'm gonna shriek like a girl and grab the heaviest blunt object nearby.

-Siege

sissors!! use the sissors!

-Mike R.

Buzzed a good way to find new tech is to look up the companies in SR. Boeing has some amazing stuff on the drawing boards, same for General Dynamics. Any real world company will be a great place to look.

DARPA.
http://www.darpa.mil/body/off_programs.html

Fuck, so long as I don't get injected full of too many drugs when I enlist, it's cool. But still.

*shudder*

It's not a website, and more of a general knowledge builder, but I'm finding the History Channels "Modern Marvels" series pretty interesting. Just watched 3 1 hour episodes. 1 dealing with the m-16, 1 on armor/bulletproofing and 1 on ammunition. Interesting stuff.

i *would* recommend New Scientist, and the website of Scientific American, but you'd basically be a month behind the /. Science section, and then K (J?) would have to stab.

i'd advise trying to catch the academics in a particular field communicating with each other. but not when they're addressing bling-givers. IEEE is a good place to start for industry stuff of doom, but they guard the data with bling-requirements, afaik. ACM too.

and i'd caution that DARPA, though they have the potential to be truly awesome, is thoroughly enmeshed in the Complex. they did make the current projects sound meaty and interesting through content-free blurbs, though. state the purported purpose, never state actual yield. :]
of course, those ARE very nontrivial tasks they're tackling. pity they club54 their sandbox.

www.kurzweilai.net is an excellent website.

Try http://www.metalstorm.com/ to see the future of firearms development. They already have demonstrated live fire prototypes or a 24-Barrel 96 Shot - 40mm Grenade Pod. That means there are 4 rounds in each barrel and they can choose how many rounds out of each barrel they want to fire in order to accomplish a particular mission.

They also have a video about a 100% Electronic Handgun Prototype. It has four barrels each with multiple rounds in them and each pair of barrels carries a different type of ammo.

Check it out.