- Open-source mobile hardware: the Neo900 replacement mainboard for the Nokia N900 and Jolla’s modular “backpack” concept were highlighted as the most viable community-driven phone platforms, with the latter enabling plug-in radiation or geiger sensors.  
- Serval Project’s mesh-networking firmware allows phones to make voice calls without cell towers; the system has already been deployed in disaster zones (interview at redecentralize.org).  
- DNSChain (okTurtles) was presented as a blockchain-backed DNS alternative that decentralizes name resolution and identity (demo at dns.dnschain.net/id/greg).  
- A DIY diamond-like-carbon (DLC) CVD project aims to coat aluminum and steel parts for 7th- and 8th-generation FDM hot-ends capable of extruding polycarbonate and eventually aluminum; all designs will be open-sourced.  
- The BioBrick registry’s reliability for non-institutional iGEM teams was questioned—participants estimated a ~50 % chance of receiving the correct sequence and recommended amplifying promoters directly from genomic DNA instead.  
- A debate on global inequality referenced the 2014 Oxfam statistic that 85 individuals held as much wealth as the bottom half of humanity, with calls for precise, technical criteria for an “acceptable” wealth distribution curve.  
- Additional links circulated: French-language “biopunk manifesto” video (YouTube), Starfire Space Cannon Kickstarter for low-cost sub-orbital launches, and a leaked Snowden document on viral mortality in oceanic cells (cryptome.org).