• Real-time “silent speech” interface demo: Raphael Mosaic posted a video showing live audio post-processing that converts sub-audible whispering into normal-sounding speech before feeding it to Whisper ASR; the underlying paper is “WESPER: Zero-shot and Realtime Whisper-to-Normal Voice Conversion for Whisper-based Speech Interactions” (linked via Papers with Code).

• Historical EMG precedent: fenn recalled the ~2014 Myo armband-era experiments that used sub-threshold laryngeal EMG to achieve completely silent speech recognition and even wheelchair control, but noted that contemporary documentation is scarce.

• Protein-engineering showcase: Prash Singh shared a Nature Microbiology article (DOI 10.1038/s41564-024-01674-1) and accompanying video on “Engineering Protein Assemblies,” illustrating a future workbench that tightly couples structural-biology data with modular protein design for synthetic-biology applications.

• Assisted-reproduction statistics: kanzure relayed a report that 17 % of Taiwan’s 135 571 births in 2023 resulted from assisted-reproduction technologies; officials project a 20–30 % birth-rate increase if regulations are further relaxed, highlighting the societal scale of reproductive biotech.

• Indie game “Lifecraft” (Steam ID 1839930) was spotlighted by jrayhawk as a life-systems simulation that the community wishes had been an open-source/biohacker project rather than a commercial release.