Stripe Spotter

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

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 Multimedia Retrieval in …

Who is The Weeknd?

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

Complex attempts to clear up a few questions about the latest young, gifted and black music artist to come up on the Internet with a brand of crossover music. The University of Toronto student Abel Tesfaye, assumed to be 20 years old, is rumored to have worked with Drake, among other Canadian music biz heavies.

WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery

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

New Zealand-based personal brewmasters WilliamsWarn has released a complete miniaturized beer brewing system, which does all the work from fermenting to sterilizing to carbonating, while you sit back, relax and enjoy the brew. The all-in-one system has you covered from adding in the ingredients to a quick turn of the switch that achieves the perfect temperature for a freshly-dispensed artisan homebrew.