# IRC Log Summary - July 22, 2011

• Lucas_ discussed plans to implant magnets for "magnetic sensing," with archels clarifying that while not "bunk," the sensation is limited to feeling vibrations near transformers, electric motors, and security gates rather than detecting Earth's magnetic field.

• Archels shared details about a smart watch prototype in development featuring multiple sensors (compass, barometer, humidity, temperature) with plans to add accelerometers and magnetic field strength meters, demonstrating an early version at http://www.turingbirds.com/upload/watch_demo_2011-07-11.mp4.

• Utopiah shared a link to PySurfer (http://pysurfer.github.com), a Python implementation of FreeSurfer for neuroimaging visualization and analysis.

• Kanzure shared research on DNA-based neural networks from Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/nature10262.html), though archels noted it was an "abuse of the term 'neural network'."

• Fenn discussed the potential of infrared functional brain imaging using LED/photodiode on the skull, suggesting it could provide enough information to remember dreams, especially if combined with EEG.

• Kanzure shared several resources related to academic publishing, including a JSTOR torrent, Royal Society search code (https://github.com/bnewbold/royal-search), and publisher copyright agreements database (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/).