• The Parametric Human Project, an academic/industry consortium, is creating a high-resolution, data-driven biomechanical statistical anatomical model for digital ergonomics and human-ability augmentation, using a “BoneBot” laser bone scanner and DT-MRI fiber validation.

• Participants questioned whether antibody-free protein-analysis techniques could finally displace FACS and immunofluorescence microscopy, noting that DNA/RNA methods have advanced far faster than protein assays.

• Thync’s pivot from transcranial ultrasound brain stimulation to transdermal electrical neurosignaling (TEN) on facial nerves was criticized; earlier, more ambitious ultrasound applications for deep-brain modulation and tumor ablation were contrasted with the current stress-reduction marketing claims.

• A Nature Materials paper on ultrathin conformal 8×8 Si nanomembrane diode arrays for continuous skin-temperature monitoring sparked speculation that similar membranes could enable low-resolution near-infrared brain-activity imaging.

• Frustration was voiced over Google’s proprietary lock-in of Project Tango localization data and its “area description format,” prompting calls for an open, crowd-sourced alternative to Google Street View.

• Debate arose over long-duration spaceflight physiology: whether electrical muscle stimulation and lymphatic pumping would be necessary during medically induced comas or hypometabolic states on multi-month Mars or outer-solar-system missions to prevent atrophy and bed sores.

• A pre-print (arXiv:1405.4482) proposing a semiconductor model of rocks to explain unipolar magnetic pulses observed before earthquakes was shared, suggesting that crustal stress could be triangulated via these long-wavelength electromagnetic signals.