• Google Glass “winking” API and open-source app “Winky” were shared, enabling hands-free photo capture via eye-wink gestures; links to Hacker News discussion, project page, and GitHub repository were provided.

• jmil announced he will start an assistant-professor bioengineering lab at Rice University focused on 30-year sugar-printing project for organ fabrication, and invited equipment suggestions.

• Debate on merits of decellularization vs. 3-D sugar printing for organ engineering: jmil argued decellularization lacks reproducibility, control, and assays for clot risk; delinquentme countered that perfusion decellularization plus negative pressure has already produced working rat lungs.

• CLARITY tissue-clearing technique (hydrogel embedding + electrophoretic lipid removal enabling intact-brain imaging) was discussed; jmil noted Baylor collaborators already use related Scale method.

• CERN crowdfunding effort to fund a full-time KiCad developer was mentioned, alongside discussion of PCB-layout tools (KiCad vs. gEDA) for open-hardware projects.

• nmz787_ reported progress on a DIY spectrometer using the TCD1304AP CCD (same sensor as commercial NanoDrop devices) and sought KiCad PCB-layout collaborators.

• Michael J. Fox Foundation project to insert human LRRK2 BAC into mouse genome for Parkinson’s research was noted.

• One-hour PCR-based DNA-testing chip (misreported as “sequencing” in press) was linked; kanzure clarified it’s PCR, already DIY-accessible, and miniaturization is straightforward.

• pdfparanoia tool gained an automated test script that downloads PDFs from two sources and verifies byte-for-byte identity after watermark removal.

• Archels quipped that “Google Glass is the future—and the future has awful battery life,” highlighting early wearable power concerns.