Retalix’s systems enable retailers to serve in excess of 30 million customers a day, a number that is growing continually.The next time you zip through the grocery checkout line at your supermarket, you can thank Israeli technology. The cashier behind …
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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.
Israeli companies helping Americans slide to safety
The Escape external collapsible elevator used to rescue people from a skyscraper – facing outdated US regulations.Israelis Yoav Barzilay and Jonathan Shimshoni are both in business to succeed, but what truly drives them is the desire to save lives. And …
Israeli dental robot makes implants less painful, less expensive
Tactile Technologies is the first company to offer accurate image-guided navigation relying on low-cost disposable elements, without involving any special equipment.A new Israeli start-up wants to put a robot in your mouth. The company, Rehovot-based Tactile Technologies, recently obtained US …
Better teeth and fewer wrinkles: Israeli technology puts collagen to work
ColBar has perfected a technique by which collagen can be purified and transformed to produce a variety of products for medical application.Whether it is fixing teeth by making dental implants adhere to the bone or making us look younger by …
Israeli software leads the way in speech recognition technology
The ability to monitor calls and pick out keywords isn’t just the stuff of dramatic television – it is very real, and becoming more accessible even to those who don’t work for the CIA.In television spy shows like Alias, the …
Israeli TV chip launches boost in color
Genoa’s ColorPeak technology works by taking ordinary television broadcast signals, comprising the RGB standard, and converting the display in real-time to five colors, by adding yellow and cyan.Simon Lewis, VP of marketing and business development at Genoa Color Technologies, believes …
Top Israeli technology transfer chief wooed away by Harvard
Allon Therapeutic Inc. – recently acquired by British Columbia company Neuro Discovery Inc. – is one of the many success stories of Ramot.Turning discoveries made in the green ivy-covered walls of Academe into products is a tough job; turning them …
Israeli biomolecular computer can operate a billion programs
This new biological computer is also autonomous; it processes calculations from beginning to end without any human assistance. A new version of a biomolecular computer developed at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology – composed entirely of DNA molecules and enzymes …
Israeli armor saves American lives in Iraq
With Rafael’s reactive armor, the Bradley is better able to withstand a direct hit from a variety of anti-armor munitions, including shoulder-fired rocket propelled grenades.Israeli-developed armor that has been installed on American armored personnel carriers (APCs) in Iraq has saved …
Israeli container ID solution keeps American ports and rails safe
The Hi-Tech Solutions systems can read camera images and extract the identification data, with the recognition result then logged together with the images and entered into a computer.Coming and going isn’t as easy as it used to be. In a …