- DIYgenomics launched a user-survey for its upcoming mobile application, aiming to gather requirements for citizen-science genomics tools (SurveyMonkey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RYMGSD6).  
- Dan Bolser presented on “Community Annotation and BioWikis” at the Bioinformatics Open-Source Conference (BOSC 2010); slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/danbolser/biowikis-bsb10 and the session was live-streamed at http://www.livestream.com/bifx.  
- The University of Mainz issued a call for abstracts on “Cognitive Enhancement,” soliciting interdisciplinary research on pharmacological, technological, and ethical aspects of augmenting human cognition (http://www.philosophie.uni-mainz.de/2029_DEU_HTML.php).  
- MIT Technology Review’s arXiv blog was circulated, highlighting recent preprints relevant to emerging technologies (http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25914/).  
- A high-throughput sequencing resource page from the University of Birmingham was shared, offering practical guidance and tools for pathogen genomics (http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/hts/).  
- Discussion referenced the FSF’s new hardware endorsement criteria, which prohibit co-branding with proprietary-software badges while allowing factual compatibility statements (http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Hardware/Endorsement_criteria).  
- Novel magnetic-gear technology from Magnomatics was noted as a potentially transformative mechanical transmission method with applications in robotics and energy systems (http://www.magnomatics.com/technology/magnetic-gears.aspx).