- Enrico Dini’s 3-D printer “D-Shape” can print entire sandstone buildings layer-by-layer using sand and a magnesium-based inorganic binder, pointing toward automated construction at architectural scale.  
- A Makezine post showcased a soft-robotics “tentacle robot,” illustrating ongoing interest in biomimetic actuators for future prosthetics or manipulation systems.  
- The eth0 summer 2010 conference in the Netherlands issued a call-for-papers on “DIY Biology and Return of the Citizen Scientist,” explicitly linking biohacking, open-source methods, and hackerspaces.  
- kanzure presented at the UT Austin Automated Design Lab on two topics: automated generation of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip layouts and inferring building topology from crowdsourced Wi-Fi heat-maps.  
- The X-Prize Foundation announced plans for ≈ $100 M in new prizes over the next decade, targeting neurobiology, personalized medicine, healthcare advancement, and physician augmentation/tele-medicine; a BCI-specific X-Prize was already in development with an 8–14 month design cycle.  
- Wired covered ultra-thin silk-based electronics that conformally laminate onto the brain, offering biocompatible, dissolvable interfaces for future BCIs.  
- Discussion of open-access barriers noted that ISO and ASTM technical standards remain locked behind paywalls, impeding open hardware development.  
- A proposal floated in hackerspace circles to label shared tools with a “blue-circle/white-hammer” sticker to prevent accidental conversion of communal equipment into one-off “flame-throwing attack droids.”  
- jrayhawk explained why U.S. ACH “pull” banking and wire transfers feel risky: anyone with routing + account numbers can debit funds, and reversibility windows create trust issues, highlighting infrastructure frictions for open-source hardware funding.