- Mojo Vision’s battery-powered contact lens integrates an IMU, micro-display for apps/TV, and a low-resolution camera capable of optical-flow tracking, raising concerns about potential Facebook acquisition.  
- Meta/Facebook published an unconventional pneumatic-logic haptic display (Science Advances 2024) using 1 kHz ring oscillators and digital position controllers, prompting discussion of its anachronistic approach.  
- A simpler alternative haptic system was highlighted: a rubber sheet + PCB/fiberglass sandwich delivering 300 Hz proportional response, scalable and high-resolution, demonstrated in linked YouTube videos.  
- Electro-osmotic pumps were proposed as compact, low-cost actuators for hydraulic/pneumatic valves in fluidic-muscle robotics, replacing bulky solenoids.  
- Sam Altman’s new “Moore’s Law for Everything” essay (moores.samaltman.com) was shared, framing economic implications of exponential cost declines.  
- Effective-altruism forum post argued against pursuing “short-sleeper” gene mutations, citing health trade-offs; JASON report (DoD) countered that reducing sleep need is the most viable path to “supersoldiers.”  
- Rice University/US Army trial of a “sleeping cap” that enhances glymphatic clearance during sleep was noted as aligned with the above supersoldier research.