- The Silicon Valley Transhumanist Meetup Group was about to shut down on March 23, 2011, after organizer James Clement stepped down without naming a successor, highlighting the fragility of grassroots transhumanist communities.  
- A discussion on using pancake vibration motors as kinetic energy harvesters concluded that the millivolt-level output is far too low for practical battery charging, even with 3-day charge times and regenerative-braking concepts.  
- Participants explored inductive charging as a realistic alternative for implanted or wearable devices, estimating 3 V, 95 mA for 15 minutes of run-time and noting the body-modification market’s willingness to pay ≈ $1 000 per unit.  
- The cost-per-genome graph was compared to a Kurzweil-style exponential decline, with one researcher projecting that sequencing costs could go “below zero” as genetic data becomes a commodity that companies pay users to obtain.  
- A short-story recommendation, “More Than the Sum of His Parts,” was shared as a vision of radical prosthetic enhancement and human-machine integration.  
- The U.S. Senate passed a patent-overhaul bill shifting the U.S. to a “first-inventor-to-file” system, favoring large tech and pharma firms while raising concerns among small inventors and open-source developers.  
- Recent Winfree-lab work on DNA-guided 2D patterning of carbon-nanotube circuits was mentioned, extending DNA-based self-assembly toward functional electronic devices.  
- Links to classic DNA computing papers, including “Enzyme-Free Nucleic Acid Logic Circuits” (2006), were circulated as foundational reading for DNA logic-gate research.  
- A request was made for access to the paper “Microfluidic logic gates and timers,” illustrating ongoing interest in non-silicon, fluidic computation platforms.