Water brings Israel, Egypt and Germany together
At “Wasser Berlin” the Egyptian Minister of Utilities, Drinking Water and Sewage posed for photos with several Israeli delegates and the German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development. 23 Israeli companies were represented at the event.
Look after your computers
(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israeli hi-tech company Soluto has launched a new service that allows businesses to manage all their Personal Computers from a single point. The cost is 90% less than most of the competition. Soluto’s consumer product has already had 3 million downloads.
Stopping security leaks
The CelluSec platform from Israel’s WiseSec has “indoor GPS” that can monitor mobile computers and smartphones inside an organization. Israel’s Ness Technologies then can switch off your Internet capability, Bluetooth, camera etc. to protect against stealing data inside sensitive areas of the building.
The gates are opening
The Israeli water authority is to open the Degania Dam and replenish the flow of the Jordan River by releasing 1,000 cubic meters of water per hour from Lake Kinneret. It is part of an ecological regeneration process to restore the river and is being implemented in conjunction with the Kingdom of Jordan.
Israel’s street-lab in Manhattan
15 scientists from Israel, aged 16-18, are to present Israeli technological advancements in a "street lab" tent in Manhattan's Union Square. The inventions include a handicapped parking protection system, a seizure-alerting cell phone app and a drunk driving prevention system.
Glowing plants
(Thanks to NoCamels.com) No need for electric street lighting in the future – the trees will glow. Israeli-American company Genome Compiler is working to synthesize the DNA of an Arabidopsis plant with genes from a firefly that cause natural luminosity.
Grasping the opportunity
(Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s Omek Interactive has taken the new Gesture Technology to a different level in order to manipulate PC, mobile and gaming screens. Omek’s “Grasp” follows 22 points along each hand and fingers to open a whole new world of possibilities.
It’s how you say it
Voice emotion recognition developer Beyond Verbal has launched a patented technology that can extract, decode, and measure a full spectrum of human emotions from a person’s raw voice. Based on 18 years of research, its emotional detection engines understand someone’s mood and attitude as they speak.
52 Israeli designers
52Designers is a project to showcase 52 of Israel’s most talented designers. Each week for a year a new Israeli designer will be featured.
Israeli technology helped capture Boston bombers
Surveillance cameras alone were not enough to locate the Boston Marathon terrorists. Israeli hi-tech company BriefCam enabled investigators to summarize an hour of surveillance video footage into only one minute and also zoom in on people and objects whose movements changed during the filming. The system then tracked those movements from the beginning of the video.