- Looxcie wearable camera was dissected as an early “always-on” life-logging device: 5-hour loop, QVGA resolution, exposed LED, but entirely off-the-shelf parts that could be cloned and extended with facial-recognition AR overlays.  
- RepRap governance and tooling were criticized: MakerBot Cupcake called “the most awful design ever,” Mini-Mendel (Huxley) favored, and timschmidt proposed a single, version-controlled repo that bundles electronics, firmware, and mechanical submodules.  
- lolcad, a new Python CAD experiment (git://diyhpl.us/lolcad.git), was introduced: exports STEP, live OpenGL preview, and planned built-in tessellation to skip Blender for quick STL generation.  
- Community resources launched: Open Hardware Summit slide deck, ohroadmap.org wiki, and finalized Gada Prize guidelines—kanzure noted prior Foresight Institute alignment and potential X PRIZE amplification via Singularity University.  
- STL 2.0 initiative (stl2 Google group + survey) aims to replace STL with a richer additive-manufacturing file format, led by Hod Lipson and backed by ASTM.  
- BioCurious, a new Silicon Valley open-science biology lab, was highlighted in TMCnet, Contra Costa Times, and P2P Foundation pieces as a test case for a “social contract” around open biology.  
- Eagleman Lab experiments on time perception and motor-sensory recalibration during free-fall were shared, alongside anecdotal discussion of extreme time-dilation in childhood accidents.