Israeli fish farms can feed the world
Latest news on the sustainable fish farms built by Israel’s LivinGreen that I featured previously . In 2014, LivinGreen led an educational project in Ghana, building farms from local materials. LivinGreen also participated in other projects in Ethiopia and China.
India to adopt Israeli agriculture grafting
India’s Natural Organic Farmers’ Association is working with Israeli companies to import Israeli grafting technology in order to improve crop yields and pest resistance whilst reducing water usage and the indiscriminate use of fertilizers.
Checking every fruit is perfect
Most exporters perform random checks on their produce. Israeli fruit exporter Eshet Eilon inspects every piece of fruit for quality and ripeness. It uses spectral imaging at a rate of five tons an hour and rejects anything that contains disease or fungus.
How good are your farm workers?
Israel’s Pointer Software Systems has developed Pickapp – a quality assurance (QA) monitoring application for farm managers. It provides real-time tracking of the progress of harvesting and the quality of the produce harvested.
Israeli apps are already ticking on new Apple watch
Glide, JoyTunes, 24me, TL;DR and Vonage among the made-in-Israel applications already available on Apple’s new wearable.
Protect the file, not the cabinet
Israel’s Sookasa provides encryption security for sensitive data even when it is accessed from a mobile device. Copies of data are as important as the original, and Sookasa is the result of a rethink to the entire security approach.
Israel powers into oil & gas tech conference
Fourteen Israeli companies were on display at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), one of the world’s largest annual trade shows for the oil and gas industry. 94,700 people from 130 countries attended the conference.
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Microsoft’s (Israeli) Surface Pen in action
Please watch three creative individuals increase their productivity using the digital pen that Microsoft acquired when it bought out Israel’s N-Trig.
You can grow rice on a mountain
35,000 attended Agritech 2015 in Tel Aviv, including 200 Gaza farmers. Israel’s Netafim installed the biggest agricultural wall in Israel to demonstrate how its drip-irrigation systems can help grow crops anywhere – even vertically. Israel’s flux showed its system for vertical hydroponics.
The Higgs boson is super-cool
Bar-Ilan University researchers have revealed the illusive sub-atomic particle known as the Higgs boson, during low-temperature superconductivity experiments. The Higgs boson, believed responsible for most of the mass in the universe, had previously only been observed in high-energy collisions.