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 …

Tesla Showroom

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

With only one model for sale, the Tesla showroom needed a little more excitement. The carmaker asked former Apple retail guru George Blankenship to design a new display for their Roadster that would be “clean, approachable, comfortable and exciting.”

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.