Instead of spending time hooked up to an expensive machine at the hospital, a number of phones will monitor your heart for you, and alert the doctor if anything is going wrong.READ»
The health care system is anything but patient-centric--except in the emergency room. Design firm Worrell examines how lessons from the ER could better the broader health industry.READ»
This fall, I am working on wrapping up the manuscript for a book called Spreadable Media, a collaboration with MIT Convergence Culture Consortium. In short, businesses are looking at how content that circulates ultimately makes ...READ»
Origami has inspired countless gadgets: bicycles, MP3 players, and now, homeless shelters?
Sounds like a gimmick, but yeah. Tina Hovsepian, a recent grad of USC’s architecture school, has invented a cardboard shelter that pops up ...READ»
There is a slick new television commercial advertising Apple's iPad. It includes a cool medical application that can be used for medical imaging. The advertisement shows a trend in medicine: in the last two years there has been an ...READ»
The new collaboration is a revolutionary way for motion graphics artists, product designers, and health care providers to work together to save lives.READ»
This past October, Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, was purchased for $650 million, and its Web site, newsday.com, was put behind a pay wall. For just $5 a week, users could gain access to the site, but after three months on the market, how many had subscribed? Thirty-five people.READ»
Leslie Saxon
Professor of Medicine; Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine
USC school of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
Reinventing the Consumer
Leslie Saxon, 50, has worked in the field of networked health monitoring ...READ»
Marientina Gotsis
Media Lab Manager
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Los Angeles, California
Gaming the System
Marientina Gotsis, 31, teaches "Games for Health" at USC, and with a grant from Health Games Research, she ...READ»
Renowned Asian designers now helm two of the U.S.'s traditionally Eurocentric architecture schools. Here's what they're teaching the new generation of American architects.READ»
