- A DIYbio thread on “Bioengineering a Dragon” led to the suggestion of using lobsters (“dragon shrimp”) as a six-limbed chassis because crustaceans already possess the extra appendages absent in tetrapods.  
- Participants compared implanted continuous-glucose sensors: a Dexcom G4 worn for 16 months was praised for accuracy, and open-source plans were outlined to sniff its 2.4 GHz ISM packets with an nRF24L01 or RTL-SDR and relay data via BLE, Wi-Fi, or USB-OTG to Android phones or Pebble watches.  
- The Pololu Wixel 2.4 GHz USB-radio bridge was proposed to pull Dexcom G4 data and forward it to Android via USB-OTG; the open-source “dexterity” project (https://github.com/tzachi-dar/dexterity) already contains relevant USB-host code, while iOS was ruled out due to Apple’s authentication-chip requirement.  
- A Somneo Sleep Trainer mask—using timed eye-warming and blue light to shorten Stage 1 sleep and reduce sleep inertia—was highlighted as an ideal transhumanist napping tool.  
- Founding makerspaces was weighed against bootstrapping fabrication: MIT’s FabLab grant template was noted, but participants agreed that starting a small business or joining an existing hackerspace (< $10 k) is cheaper and faster than chasing million-dollar grants.  
- Hackaday posts circulated on electroplating copper and silver onto 3-D-printed PLA parts (with caveats about carbon-based conductive primers) and on squeezing BLE advertisements out of a non-BLE nRF24L01 module, trading off only 14–19 bytes of payload.  
- The 2015 Bio Art & Design Awards open call was announced, now allowing non-EU applicants to Skype into the first matchmaking event instead of traveling to The Hague.  
- A Nature News article was shared describing a new game-theoretic poker algorithm that is not unbeatable in any single hand but is mathematically guaranteed to win in the long run.  
- Microsoft wireless keyboards were shown to XOR keystreams with a fixed 5-byte MAC address in ECB mode, enabling the $10 KeySweeper wall-charger (nRF24L01+ plus microcontroller) to passively capture, decrypt, and inject keystrokes.