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 …
Technology
VascoDe brings smart-phone capabilities to simple cell phones
Israeli startup carves out a niche selling software to give online app access to billions of people in places where smartphones are unaffordable.
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 …
US fighting vehicles to be equipped with Israeli anti-RPG technology
To protect against weapons like the RPG, you need active protection, and the Trophy is a result of that – Didi Ben Yoash, Business Development Manager of RAFAEL’s Active Protection Systems division. One of the most deadly weapons that America’s …
A Fresh Approach to Weather Forecasting: Ringing in the Rain
Her unique approach to a scientific problem led Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron to harness cellphone signals for measuring rainfall Cellphones can already take photos, surf the Net, and even measure heart rate.
Putting on an Ezface
Ruth Gal in a before (right) and after photo. ‘We turn the computer screen into a virtual mirror,’ says Gal, creator of EZface Inc.With children, jobs, activities, meetings, social outings, perpetual commitment and endless obligation at the fore, leisure time …
Drive silently and carry an S-Chip
‘Noise is one of the worst kinds of environmental pollution,’ says Silentium’s CEO Yossi Barath, “It puts a lot of stress on our brain and has a serious psychological effect, too, not to mention leading to deafness.” Paddling silently up …