From the Eco-libris website, the eco-concerned reader chooses how many books to offset, from five to 500, or more, and buys the commensurate number of Eco-libris stickers for $1 each.Hundreds of thousands of new books are published every year and, …
Author Archives: Tania Hershman
21c update – Turning olive pits into energy
Genova’s pilot plant in the Druze village of Julis. After you’ve enjoyed a tangy olive, don’t throw away the pit – it could soon be providing a clean, green answer to heat and electricity production, thanks to technology developed by …
Israeli-developed drug could minimize brain damage after head trauma
Professor Teichberg and his team decided to tackle the problem much like one would water in a sinking ship – and pump the excess glutamate out of the brain.The brain is a sensitive organ. 1.4 million people in the US …
Web 2.0 for the Over 20s
ESnips is a content-sharing community for people who “have a life.”Like an online version of Andy Warhol’s famous declaration, everyone is getting their MySpace fifteen minutes of fame. But if you’re not a tech-savvy, music-crazed, dating-obsessed teenager, the MySpace online …
New Israeli high tech billboards aren’t magic, they are Magink
Magink’s CEO Ron Poliakine: Many people talked about it, but what we do is for the first time achieving something that is actually working: the world’s first full-color digital ink displays. The Cannes Film Festival in late May was the …
Israel’s EPOS gets it down in writing
EPOS’s digital pen writes on any surface, and your words go straight into your word processing software – and it also doubles up as a wireless mouse. There is good news for people who are slow typists. Inputting text into …
Let your PowerPoint do the talking
Tuva Software presents voice-over ‘Paul’ – ‘The speech automatically goes together with the visual information.’PowerPoint slides can be visually appealing and informative, but what really makes or breaks a presentation is the person talking you through it, expanding on the …
Israeli researchers stem the tide of desertification
Jaap Van Rijn, pictured on the left, a senior lecturer in aquaculture, has developed a system for growing fresh or seawater fish in inland ponds, even in the desert. (Photo: Judy Siegel)As the planet heats up, the population grows and …
Israeli ‘virtual patient engine’ designs safe clinical trials, and saves lives
The Virtual Patient Engine provides a safe, virtual, cheaper and quicker way to test how a new drug will work in humans.The development of any new drug for cancer – which kills half a million Americans every year – is …
An Israeli flash drive in every wallet
Walletex CEO Alon Atsmon: I think the [Wallet Flash] shape is the future… The most convenient place is in your wallet.Those little flash memory drives that plug into any USB port and let you carry your files around on your …