Spiral Ballpoint Pen

Bike-powered sewing machines, the secret iPhone tracker and eggshell carvings in this week's look at the web

Designers Han Chi-hoon, Kim Yeon-soo, Park Byong-gon and Kim Sung-geun collaborated on a new ballpoint ink cartridge in a spiral form, an innovation that holds twice as much ink as a traditional pen.

WeFund

Bike-powered sewing machines, the secret iPhone tracker and eggshell carvings in this week's look at the web

Like a Kickstarter specific to the artistic community, WeFund, a new web-based program, links creative projects with potential funders in exchange for non-monetary incentives.

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 …