Game changing clean energy
The Israeli “smart water” network and software management firm Whitewater was named a 2013 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer at a ceremony in New York. Whitewater was described as one of the “game-changing companies in the field of clean energy technology and innovation.”
Solar powered sensors are a winner
Israeli agro-tech Sol-Chip’s solar-powered sensors monitor the quality of the soil, irrigate automatically and even keep track of cows. Sol-Chip has just won the Technical Development Award in the 2013 IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe Conference in Berlin.
A good name
Dr Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan have donated $133 million to have the new Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute named after them. The funds will help support curriculum initiatives, faculty and graduate students, and industry interactions in a two-year graduate program at the JTCII in New York City.
There still is light
Protecting the transport of photons of light is vital for computing and communications. Technion scientists have developed the first photonic topological insulators that prevent light from scattering irrespective of any defects in the materials that they flow through.
Israel to make wings for F-35
Israel Aerospace Industries has signed a long-term contract with US defense giant Lockheed Martin to produce wings for the F-35 next-generation fighter jet. State-owned IAI already manufactures the wings for the F-16 jet and the T-38.
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+ .
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.