‘A good deal for Sun, and a good deal for Israel’s start-ups,’ Eddie Resnick, marketing director for the Sun Startup Essentials Program. In these days of shrinking investment fund availability, Israeli startups could use a friend in the business. And …
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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.
A walk – and drive – down electric avenue
An Israeli company has built a technology that can harvest energy generated by cars driving down a road and pedestrians walking through subways. Eddy Grant’s song Electric Avenue has come to life: An Israeli company Innowattech has built a technology …
Israel’s Explay helps you see the big picture
Today, you can store pictures, video clips, and documents in your cellular phone, but you can’t make full use of them without a companion handheld or embedded projection device. That will soon change, thanks to an Israeli company’s recently unveiled …
Israeli trees can text message their farmers when thirsty
Need a drink? Volcani researcher Eran Raveh attaches the water stress monitor to a lemon tree. It sounds like a fantasy of Audrey II, the colorful man-eating plant from the Little Shop of Horrors movie: Israeli scientists have developed a …
Israel’s nanotech industry takes off
Bionic noses used as bomb sniffers. Mini-medical submarines that deliver drugs to individual cancer cells in your body. Tiny chemical laboratories on a chip to monitor water pollution. Self-cleaning materials that mimic a bird’s feathers. Sunscreen that doesn’t soak into …
OoVoo brings teleconferencing to the masses… for free
In the not so distant past, conducting a teleconference between several company offices in different parts of the globe required a dedicated meeting room with large TV screens on the wall and cameras that panned and swayed to capture meeting …
New Israeli method ‘de-claws’ plutonium for peaceful use
The method developed at Ben-Gurion University denatures the plutonium created in large nuclear reactors by adding Americium. (Image: Plutonium pellet; Courtesy of the US Department of Energy via Wikimedia Commons) “It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the …
MindCite connects the dots to solve crime
Terrorists, criminals, lawbreakers are usually whizzes at covering their tracks. Tracking them down may be possible in a fast-paced TV show with super star detectives like Horatio H. Caine, Mac Taylor, or Jack Bauer. But, in reality, a staggering number …
Sweat, the fingerprint of the future?
Perspiration has crime-busting potential, according to Israeli chemists who say that the food we eat, drugs we take, gender and even state of mind, all combine to make each person’s sweat unique. Dr. Michael Gozin of Tel Aviv University’s School …
Medtronic to turn Ventor into major new Israeli R&D center
Medical devices giant Medtronic plans to turn its latest $325 million acquisition, Israeli company Ventor Technologies, into a significant R&D center for new technologies. It may have been a stormy week for the Israeli high-tech industry, as Amdocs announced …