- Michael Rose and Paul McGlothin presented at the Immortality Institute 2010 via Teleplace on new anti-aging strategies and human calorie restriction, respectively; recordings were posted on the telexlr8 blog.  
- Berkeley Bionics publicly unveiled the eLEGS exoskeleton, a lightweight, untethered lower-limb system intended to restore ambulation for paraplegics.  
- OpenPCR was debated: although marketed as “open-source,” only partial design files (temperature-control code on GitHub and basic SketchUp enclosure) have been released, prompting criticism that the project is more promotional than open.  
- CloudSCAD, a browser-based parametric CAD tool, was confirmed to be fully open-source and available on GitHub.  
- DIYbio discussions referenced Russell’s blog post on the importance of fully sequenced model organisms for community biology projects.  
- BioDesign India 1.0, a new bio-hacking event, was announced for the Indian maker community.  
- Make’s Epilog Zing laser-cutter contest and Thingiverse’s Halloween design challenge were highlighted as opportunities for open-hardware builders.  
- A BeagleBoard + Myvu head-mounted display hack and a Flickr set of similar wearable prototypes were shared as examples of ongoing open-source AR experimentation.  
- Conversations about IDA Pro 4.9 covered its usefulness for reverse engineering and the copy-protection watermarking technique used by Data Rescue.  
- The channel also touched on practical tooling: Git Extensions and Git-SCC plug-ins for Visual Studio 2010, and the merits of Cygwin-based Git versus TortoiseSVN.