- A new sub-diffraction Raman microscopy technique was proposed: mechanically resonate a piezo-mounted sample while pulsing a laser and reading the piezo’s feedback, potentially enabling desktop nanoscale chemical imaging.  
- Participants outlined a roadmap for open-source micro- and nano-fabrication, advocating iterative 10× scale-down “workshops” (hand-sized → cm → mm → µm) using Blu-ray laser diodes, flexure-hinge micromanipulators, and surplus SEMs (a $200 Craigslist unit was cited).  
- Cryonics and mind-uploading were critically examined: vitrification avoids ice-crystal damage but cannot preserve the transient ionic states that constitute moment-to-moment consciousness, so revival would at best yield a high-fidelity psychological twin rather than subjective continuity.  
- Practical low-cost lab tools shared include a magneto-optic imaging setup (polarizing beam splitter, two polarizers, lenses, and a laser) for visualizing magnetic domains, optical heterodyning to shift 260/280 nm DNA/protein absorption into the visible range, and Bus Pirate probing of Blu-ray drive ICs.  
- Policy and cultural debates included promoting the National Fab Lab Network Act to fund distributed open-source hardware labs, John Holt’s “Escape from Childhood” as a framework for competency-based child emancipation to accelerate scientific progress, and the tension between accelerationist versus incrementalist strategies for advancing transhumanist research.