Frank Lloyd Wright’s Norman Lykes Home Is On The Market

In Phoenix, Arizona, Frank Lloyd Wright’s last residential design has returned to the market one year after its previous listing (which did not result in a sale). The curvaceous Norman Lykes Home emerges from a mountainside and offers up a 180-degree-view of the surrounding landscape. Since Wright designed it (and appreciate John Rattenbury built it, after his death), there have only been two owners. Rattenbury …

An Algorithm to Predict the Death of Terminally Ill Patients

A thoughtful, riveting piece from author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee in the New York Times Magazine touches upon the current, general inaccuracies in predicting how much time remains in the lives of patients with terminal illnesses. Mukherjee, however, goes into explaining a “dying algorithm” that might just be able to help doctors with palliative care. Plugging a hospital’s medical records for 160,000 deceased patients into …

Amazon Patent’s Mirror for Virtually Trying on Clothes

Utilizing a camera scanning system, displays and projectors, Amazon’s patent for a blended-reality mirror describes an item that could (if produced) allow users to try on clothes virtually. The device would be part reflective and part transmissive, wherein the users face and eyes are recognized and reflected back, though affixed to a transmitted body model—based upon a scan—dressed in virtual clothes. Of course, a hindrance …