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Hologram House Calls And The Virtual Future Of Health Care

USC’s Virtual Care Clinic is a first-of-its-kind hospital using new technology to make health care both more personalized and more accessible.

To open the 9th annual USC Body Computing Conference held earlier this month, Dr. Leslie Saxon, a cardiologist and the conference’s founder, screened a short video for a mixed crowd of technologists and medical specialists. In the video, she stands front of a camera while her image is beamed in real time as a hologram to her patient in Dubai. Saxon asks her patient about her symptoms, diagnoses the problem, and walks her through her treatment options, face-to-face, without ever leaving her office.

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Ontwerpduo Mines The Past For Its Beautiful Novecento Housewares Collection

For Dutch Design Week, the Eindhoven-based studio Ontwerpduo unveils a collection based on early 20th-century pieces.

Out with the old and in with the new is a rallying cry of modernism, but for the Dutch design studio Ontwerpduo, the past proved to be fertile ground for inspiration. For the Novecento collection of furniture and housewares, cofounders Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink traveled back a hundred years.

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The New York Times Is Giving Google Cardboard VR Headsets To Print Subscribers

The New York Times is collaborating with Google for a virtual reality project called NYT VR.

If you subscribe to the print edition of the New York Times, keep an eye out in the coming weeks: The newspaper is distributing over a million of Google’s Cardboard virtual reality headsets to subscribers as part of NYT VR, a new virtual reality initiative launched in collaboration with Google.

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