Breaking down pesticides
More about the literally “groundbreaking” technology that Israel’s Weizmann Institute has developed. Israeli start-up Catalyst Ag Tech is commercializing the system that introduces eco-friendly catalysts into the soil to break down the dangerous chemicals into inert compounds.
Look your best
(Thanks to NoCamels.com) When an unsightly skin blemish spoils a photo, Facetune is your personal “digital make-up artist”. Simply upload your photo to Facebook and Facetune will erase pimples, spots and wrinkles. It can even reshape your nose. Unfortunately it doesn’t work on real life.
Linking up social media
Two Israeli companies are expanding their reach. Graduway (College alumni networks) is integrating with LinkedIn’s professional network to enable graduates to get jobs. Gigya’s social infrastructure (used by 1.5 billion users) is to include links to Google+ .
The fastest emergency response
(Thanks to NoCamels.com) Israeli start-up NowForce has developed a replacement for expensive emergency call centers. It comprises a distress signal app for the smartphone; an app for the rescue worker (including paging and directing); finally, a dispatch center back-end solution. In the Missouri police department NowForce has cut response times to one sixth of those experienced previously.
Your smartphone can have Everything
If you search for anything on a smartphone running the new Firefox operating system, it will fire up the software from Israeli start-up Everything.me. Then things really happen as it loads applications dynamically to show you everything you might want, in connection with your search.
Pump your photos up to the Cloud
Israel’s Pumpic is for those who frequently want to share large numbers or high quality photos with their friends and colleagues. Users can send up to 10,000 images - each up to 100 MB in size - instantaneously. Pumpic has just raised $700,000 in its first round of financing.
Fixing mobile phones wirelessly
Two Israeli companies Cellebrite and CommuniTake are working together to establish a service that can diagnose and repair smartphones whilst still in the hands of the customer.
Israelis get top European award
Eight Israeli companies received the Red Herring's Top 100 Europe Award, given to Europe's leading private companies in recognition of their innovations and technologies. They were Celeno, Modelity Technologies, MyThings, NLT Spine, Phinergy, Somoto, Valens and WalkMe.
Inside the Technion – Israel’s Hard Drive
A rare positive article in the New York Times about one of Israel’s top education institutes. It features an Israeli-Arab student – one of the 20% of Arabs at the Technion.
The biggest hi-tech celebration
Israel’s high-tech industry - in the form of the Israel Advanced Technologies Industry group - threw a huge Independence Day party for hundreds of guests in Tel Aviv. Representatives of 17 R&D labs of multinational companies, including Intel, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo, HP, Oracle and Philips talked about the innovations, accomplishments, and contributions they make to their parent companies.