The Israeli “Cyber Olympics”
Hundreds of kids gathered in Tel Aviv to compete for the title of Israeli Cyber Champ 2016. The massive gaming project competition aims to encourage students to choose tech as a career. One sponsor is Israel’s SanDisk – inventor of “disk on key” and a sponsor of the Rio Olympics.
Very small startups
Some of the Israeli nanotech startups featured at Jerusalem’s Innovations in Advanced Materials conference have never been mentioned previously in my newsletter. They are BioNanoSim and TrioxNano (therapy delivery), Voyager Medical (surgical sutures), OphRx (eye-drops), Neteera (bio-sensors). Neoprol (anesthetics), NanoAF (antibacterial coating) and MercuRemoval (toxic chemical removal).
Hundreds attend UK-Israel science conference
Top medical researchers (250 British, 100 Israeli) attended the annual BIRAX Conference in Oxford, England. BIRAX (Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange) focuses on regenerative medicine to fight diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s and heart conditions.
Grow more with less water
A new video showing how Israeli water technology has developed in the last 50 years to produce 700% more crops with the same quantity of this precious resource.
Cleaner garbage trucks
Israel is to install emission filters on 500 garbage trucks. They will filter out 97 percent of the cancer-causing fumes emitted from the diesel trucks, according to the Environmental Protection Ministry, at a cost of NIS 10 million.
Almost zero carbon output
You’ll be pleased to hear that Israel isn’t contributing to any of the perceived chemical impacts on climate change. In fact, Israel is one of the major innovators of solutions to famine and drought.
Waterless car wash
With the new app from Israeli startup Bonshine you can order a waterless car cleaning at your location. Bonshine’s crew comes to you, with a liquid produced from plants and five types of wax. Saves time, money and the environment.
Artificial intelligent cybersecurity
Israel’s Deep Instinct has filed five patents covering the only technology that applies deep learning to cybersecurity. Deep Instinct is the first company applying deep learning to detect malware in real-time. It can therefore detect threats that no-one has seen before.
More power to the mobile network
Israel’s Vasona Networks provides mobile network analysis tools to the top mobile network operators – such as Telefonica. Vasona’s SmartAIR edge application controller resolves cell phone congestion in real time. Vasona has just raised $14.6 million of new funds.
Innovation meets Robotics
Israeli ingenuity and know how in the field of robotics was on display at ICR2016 - the Fifth Israeli Conference on Robots in Herzliya. It featured over 120 presentations by top robotics experts.