# Key Points from IRC Log

• A discussion about mobile projection technology, with links to a phone with built-in projector (http://www.ic-mall.com/n70-e1000-projection-projector-mobile-phone-tri-band-unlocked-gsm-p-2260.html) and TI's DLP technology (http://focus.ti.com/dlpdmd/docs/dlpdiscovery.tsp?sectionId=60&tabId=2235).

• Conversation about 3D printing and fabrication technologies, including Festo iFab, with questions about comparative documentation of different fabrication projects like RepRap and commercial 3D printers.

• Sharing of academic resources, including a collection of RDF bibliographies with PDFs (http://heybryan.org/books/papers/bibliographies/) and a Zotero plugin for automatically renaming and organizing research papers.

• Technical discussion about NASA's gear bearing technology (http://techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov/ft-tech-gear-bearings.html), including planetary gear systems with rollers and herringbone designs that reduce backlash and mechanical vibration.

• Exploration of file visualization tools like gdmap and fsv, with discussion about improving user interfaces for navigating file hierarchies using techniques like hyperbolic mapping and head-tracking for 3D file viewing.

• Brief mention of a new flu outbreak in Mexico that combines swine, bird, and human flu strains, with suggestions that DIYbio communities could potentially contribute to analysis if they had proper lab safety training.

• Discussion about developing a Google Scholar search assistant Firefox extension to track search term permutations and maintain a hierarchy of search queries.