Brutal Knitting

The Weeknd revealed, a personal beer factory and brain-controlled computing in this week's look at the web

Artist Tracy Widdess shows the alternative side of knitting with her Sci-Fi-inspired masks, perfect for nefarious cold-weather activity, that sell for $150 a pop.

Dialing With Your Thoughts

The Weeknd revealed, a personal beer factory and brain-controlled computing in this week's look at the web

You can finally force your phone to read your mind. Researcher Tzyy-Ping Jung has developed an interface based on electroencephalogram electrodes where people can ‘dial numbers’ without their hands. The system relies on the intensity of brain frequencies when concentrating on different numbers and allows users to to dial on the keyboard just using brain power.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The Weeknd revealed, a personal beer factory and brain-controlled computing in this week's look at the web

1. Stripe Spotter With an innovative use of pattern recognition software, Stripe Spotter has the ability to identify animals based on snapshots of their patterns (like the unique identifying marks on a zebra, as pictured). Developed at the Computational Population Biology laboratory at the University of Illinois, and the Equid Research and Conservation laboratory at Princeton, it will be unveiled at the International Conference on …