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(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Don’t worry if you lose or break your smartphone.  With bleep-Smart from Israeli start-up Musers, your data is backed up every time you charge the phone’s battery.  Contacts, history, pictures, videos, WhatsApp – it’s all saved to a secure memory stick.

Students at Israel’s Technion are raising funds to support their project to develop the “Safie” – a biological system that detects very low concentrations of bacteria, unsafe chemicals, toxins, hormones and allergens in food and water.  Please help them to realize their aims.

Microsoft has chosen Israel’s N-Trig to provide the digital pen technology for its new Surface Pro 3 tablet computer.  N-trig provides high performance controllers and a variety of active pen types for touch-enabled smartphones, tablets and Ultrabook devices.

NASA has adopted Israeli technology for a robot to inspect equipment in deep space. The Visual Inspection Poseable Invertebrate Robot, or VIPIR, is an articulating borescope tool and a tiny camera from Israeli medical device company Medigus to provide a close-up look at space equipment.

Now you have it – one Israeli company is responsible for the production of almost every single electronic device in the world.  Read this statement about Yavne-based Orbotech.

(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Herzliya’s Tiltan Games announced a new versatile educational program for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten kids. It includes over 30 topics and games. Adaptive practice and test modules provide a personalized growth experience.

Students taking the Interactive Objects course run by Israel’s Technion can certainly get totally immersed in some exciting projects. They reflect today's world of design, which must consider the ability to create user interaction or to respond to changes in the environment.

Israel’s Elpam Electronics originally developed the geophone to find people trapped under the debris of collapsed buildings. Now it is updating the device to locate the sound of someone crawling up to 10 meters below the surface of the ground.

The Design Museum in Holon is running a unique international competition - to design and build a prototype of a shaded open space. 17 teams from Israel, USA, UK, six European countries, Chile and Turkey aim to advance the transformation of public spaces in countries with similar climates to Israel.

Tel Aviv University is to open the country’s first National Research Institute for Transportation Innovation. The institute will receive NIS 13.5 million in funding for the next five years. Entrepreneurs will be invited to perform research in the Porter School and receive financial support.