Israel Active

Thursday night (before Yom Kippur) is Researchers’ Night, a celebration of all things scientific, with hundreds of events taking place at over a dozen Israeli universities and colleges.

The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality has completed deployment of its Wi-Fi network, with the establishment of 60 hotspots in the city. The network covers 3,660,920 square meters and includes commercial centers, main commercial streets, boulevards, parks, and the beach.

Bar Ilan University archaeologists have purchased a $70,000 X-Ray Florescent Spectrometer Handheld (XRF) to go with the Fourier Transform IR spectrometer (FTIR) already being used. The devices provide the best in-the-field atomic and molecular analytic capabilities in the world.

(Thanks to NoCamels.com) Young Israeli designer Lilach Steiner, from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, has come up with a shoe designed to improve blood circulation. Her “diabetic shoes” are modeled on the mechanism of a horse’s hoof, which acts as a pump to return blood to the legs.

It can be frustrating that it takes so many actions and so much time to get your Android smartphone to do a simple task - like take a photo. Now Israeli start-up Pressy does everything for you at a press of a button attached to your headphone socket. (Great youtube video)

Israel’s Ormat Industries has completed the 100-megawatt Ngatamariki geothermal power plant in New Zealand. The plant is the largest singular binary power plant in the world. Ormat has now built 14 geothermal power plants in New Zealand totaling 350 megawatts.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s Autotalks is a world leader in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems. The purpose of V2V systems is to cut the millions of road traffic deaths and injuries by warning drivers of impending hazards.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israeli startup GreenSpense has developed an eco-friendly system for dispensing liquid products. Instead of compressed air or chemicals, a thin elastic sleeve inside the product generates high pressure. There is also no need for the container to be metallic or cylindrical.

According to Bloomberg Rankings, graduates of Israel’s Technion Institute make up the seventh highest number of Chief Executives of the top technical companies in the USA. Bloomberg analyzed 250 CEOs of US hi-tech companies with a turnover of over $1 billion.

(Thanks to NoCamels) Award-winning Japanese designer Yuima Nakazato used a Stratasys (Objet500 Connex) multi-material 3D printer to design bibs that combine numbers and images of human muscles, emphasizing his perception of clothing as an “extension of the body.”