Take a picture of your business cards with your smart phone, and ScanBizCards converts them to text, stores them and much more. ScanBizCards lets you scan, store and organize paper business cards onto your phone. It’s a familiar problem for …
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Pango puts you in a parking spot in NYC
The Israeli app takes the headaches out of finding a place to put your car in the Big Apple and other US cities, with more to come.
Hail a cab with a tap of your smart phone
Israel’s GetTaxi mobile phone application puts an end to running down the street with an outstretched arm, and benefits drivers as well. The app lets you hail a cab and get complete driver and trip info. Carrie Bradshaw on “Sex …
Where the experts go to learn English
SpeakingPal, a small Israeli startup, is garnering international attention for its interactive, phone-based approach to teaching spoken English. “The best way to learn a language is to speak it, preferably with someone who speaks that language well,” Eyal Eshed, CEO …
A touch free system to control your life
Israel’s eyeSight Technology is behind advanced touch-free systems to control everything from gaming and navigating to surgery and digital music.
MayDay sends alerts for car crash victims
Israeli space engineer’s iPhone app is activated by impact and sends emails or SMS messages to predetermined addresses. Photo by Kobi Gideon/Flash90 The MayDay emergency app can send text or email messages to friends and family in the wake of …
The personal assistant on your computer
Israel’s Genieo has developed a free application that can transform your PC into a personalized ‘newspaper’ guaranteed to bring you only the stories you want. “I was amazed that the cloud – the Internet – knew all about me, even …
Vivotext puts expression into computerized voices
Invented by a renowned pianist this Israeli technology can add and adjust expressiveness to computerized voices, making them sound happy, sad, angry, calm – just like the real thing. Gershon Silbert used his experience as a pianist to create natural …
Mind-controlled computing for the disabled
A new Israeli-developed tool enables the disabled to send emails by thought alone, and could revolutionize the world of mind-controlled computing. Photo by Dani Machlis, Ben-Gurion University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev students Uri Usami, Ariel Rosen and Ofir Tam …
Click on MicroPointing’s mini-mouse to see the future
An Israeli startup’s 1×1 mm mouse could take a starring role in everything from mobile to medical technology as design goes ever smaller. MicroPointing’s mini mouse can even be put on a rounded surface, like a ring. “How small can …
Israel: Communication satellite superpower
Spacecom’s rapidly growing satellite fleet provides communication capabilities for many of the world’s highest-demand markets. An artist’s rendering of the AMOS-4 satellite, the fifth communications satellite set to be launched by Israel’s Spacecom, sometime next year. Many people are surprised …