MagSens has developed a fully automated sensor, to be installed at several points in the water-flow process, which can detect even the minutest concentration of contaminating materials in the conducted water.In Israel, clean water is the color of money. Water …
Technology
How do you say ‘business is booming’ in Chinese?
The latest high-tech Israeli firms to set up shop in China are translation app-maker Lexifone and software developer Matrix Global.
Israeli program helps the world’s students hone their science skills
Creators of the ‘Learning Skills for Science’ (LSS) program – Drs. Zahava Scherz and Ornit Spektor-Levy, of the Weizmann Institute’s Science Teaching Department.Israeli scientists have developed an innovative new science education program designed to help junior high school kids learn …
Sunday in the park – with your laptop
Hudson River Park patrons will be able to enjoy wireless internet thanks to the Israeli technology of InspiAir.New Yorkers living in downtown Manhattan no longer need to take their laptop computers to Starbucks when they are looking for easy Internet …
Spelling and grammar mistakes go up in smoke – WhiteSmoke
The WhiteSmoke technology retrieves the diction and grammar and style that fits the required writing style. Want to write a novel like John Grisham, give a speech like Churchill, or just impress people in chat rooms with your writing skills? …
Freshening the fruit bowl using fog
Optiguide, has developed an innovative “dry fog” humidifier that provides a highly efficient solution to problems associated with moisture and biodegradable products during prolonged periods of storage.Nobody wants to buy, let alone eat, a moldy potato, bruised apple, or a …
Buffett acquisition of Wertheimer’s Iscar puts Israel on the investment map
The lobby of Iscar – ‘One cannot overestimate the importance of this investment on the Israeli economy,’ says venture capitalist Jonathan Medved.In the largest ever buy-out of an Israeli company, American investor Warren Buffett has paid $4 billion for an …
Israeli professor envisions a bright future
Professor David Faiman in front of his photovoltaic cells apparatus: When people say that the existing supply of fossil fuels will last another 30 or 40 years… this doesn’t mean that life as we know it will last 30 or …
Note-taking made easy, the Israeli way
Tegrity has technological agreements with dozens of US educational institutions including Tulane, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Benedictine and Colorado Tech.The chore of studying has become easier and considerably more interesting for today’s university students thanks to innovative technologies like PowerPoint …
Israeli digital software on crest of media revolution
Olive Software’s founder Yoni Stern: We invented the concept of easy access to digital news and we are still the leader in the field.With the Internet becoming the main source of news for many people, newspapers are fading into the …
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 …