Israel Active

Israel’s Tropx is developing high-tech clothing designed to maximize athletic performance and minimize injuries. It contains sensors that analyze athletes in real time and create personalized gym training programs for them. Tropx gives feedback on movements and any mistakes the athletes make.

Israel’s Elmo Motion Control has been making advanced servo drives and motion controllers for decades. Now German giant Bosch has recognized Elmo’s value and has moved it into the Bosch empire in a super-fast $700 million acquisition. See what this smart company has been doing.

Israel’s Caaresys is developing a passenger-monitoring system based on RF (radiofrequency), camera-free technology to make cars safer. It utilizes vital signs to detect the location, health condition, and state of each occupant. Caaresys has just been acquired by Harman, a subsidiary of Samsung.

Israel’s Uveye (see previously) has partnered with multinational Tekion Corp to improve vehicle servicing. When customers drive through UVeye scanning units at dealerships, they, and service engineers, will instantaneously receive comprehensive vehicle-condition reports.

Israel’s TurboGen has developed a micro-turbine gas boiler that is powered using 50% hydrogen and 50% natural gas (methane). The TG-40 microgenerator produces 50% of the CO2 produced by a conventional gas boiler. TurboGen is working to develop a 100% hydrogen micro-turbine.

Scientists at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have isolated the gene in wild wheat that produces a poison to repel insects. Modern cultivated wheat has lost this trait, which Israeli scientists believe they can reintroduce to improve protection for the world’s vital wheat resources.

The Pacific Southwest Israel Business Council has organized the first business mission to Israel of the Southern California Israel Chamber of Commerce. It has the full approval of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles. Meet the key players, institutions and companies shaping the Innovation Nation.

Great video featuring some of the Israeli teens who presented their inventions at the Unistream’s Young Entrepreneur competition (see previously).

Israel’s Helios )see previously) has joined with Florida’s Eta Space to create and store oxygen on the Moon. Helios’ electrochemical reactor will extract the oxygen from moon rocks and Eta Space’s cryogenic technology will liquify it and store it.

John Deere is one of the world’s largest agricultural and forestry machinery manufacturers. It is integrating the agricultural technology system from Israel’s CropX, enabling users to view data and analytics including soil sensor monitoring, from within John Deere’s Operations Center.