Today foreign companies and investors cannot ignore the enormous potential that Israeli Life Science offers.Two male waiters clad in black take a deep breath to steady their feet before hoisting a huge fruit bowl onto the bar. Onlookers dart to …
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.
California VCs look to Israel for the next big thing
XLoom’s InfinFlame uses the mechnical XFP form factor adopted by leading switch vendors as the form factor of choice for high speed links.For the second year running, a delegation of some 30 American venture capital funds based in California were …
Israeli ‘baseball’ camera spies out terrorists
The Eye Ball R1 – ‘We understand what an officer or soldier needs to enable him to do his job better and more safely.’Imagine an American soldier in Iraq on a mission. He needs to enter a building, but has …
Israel lauded for pioneering work in VoIP
Jeff Pulver: We want to recognize VocalTec and the many other Israeli companies that are responsible for helping to make VoIP happen over those 10 years.The next time you save a bundle of money by talking to someone overseas via …
Capturing a person’s electronic signature
The electronic signature is based on the electronic signals of our body current, the signals we give off automatically and continuously as our heart beats, our brain whirrs, and we breathe and function.When it comes to biometric devices, traditional image …
Meet an Israeli ‘virtual reality’ helmet that raises IQ
Dr. David Passig on his virtual reality helmet: It is like the invention of the wheel. It is a paradigm shift – a whole new way of thinking.Dr. David Passig is someone who could never being accused of living in …
Israeli discovers way to breathe underwater without oxygen tanks
The tankless breathing system will be attached to a diver in the form of a vest that will enable him to stay underwater for a period of many hours.An Israeli inventor has developed a breathing apparatus that will allow breathing …
Attention shoppers – Shopping.com at your service
Shopping.com’s stated mission is ‘to help shoppers everywhere use the power of information to find, compare and buy anything.’It all began in 1997 in the industrial area of the Israeli coastal city of Netanya – when a start-up company called …
Helping dyslexics one heartbeat at a time
The BrightStar program combines one-on-one special needs teaching with innovative technology. A father and son team from Israel has patented an innovative technology called Brightstar that is helping thousands of Americans overcome dyslexia.Dyslexia is a neurologically-based, often familial, disorder which …
The Israeli algorithm inside your satellite box
NDS smart cards, based on Israeli technology, enable broadcasters to offer customers new services without having to replace the set top boxIf you’re one of the 13 million or so American households who subscribe to DirectTV – the largest satellite …