Use Israeli technology to build your family tree
Israel-based MyHeritage now includes automated smart record matching to link family names to original documents, birth records, marriage certificates, Ellis Island passenger lists, newspapers and even tombstones.
Israeli chips for security imaging
Dr. Eran Socher of Tel Aviv University is developing small, cheap computer chips that can be used to search for concealed weapons. The complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) chips emit safe, low-level radiation to produce an image.
Electricity from waste
Israel’s Even Yehuda-based Blue Sphere is to manage two US projects for producing electricity from biogas – methane originating from organic waste. Germany's Biogas Nord will provide the equipment. A further eight similar US projects are in Blue Sphere’s pipeline.
Nice prize for NICE Systems
Israeli hi-tech company NICE won the award for Ingenuity in Language Technology, at the 2012 LT-Innovate Summit in Brussels. NICE’s semantic inference platform interprets and links the meaning of phrases used by customers whether through speech, email or social media.
Israeli cameras in orbit
Israel’s Medigus will supply its miniature video cameras and video processing equipment for NASA's Robotic Refuelling Mission. In 2013, NASA intends to send a robot to the International Space Station equipped with a 0.99-millimeter camera, which Medigus says is the smallest in the world.
Smart communications for 1WTC
The Israeli company Techmer will deploy its smart communication systems at One World Trade Center (1 WTC), the lead building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The technology will work during power outages and extreme conditions.
Make your TV recognise your hand signals
(Thanks to NoCamels) Israeli company eyeSight has joined up with Korean company Innodigital to produce a TV set-top box that turns any television set into a gesture-controlled smart TV. The product, called nTobeBox, will use a simple 2D camera.
App to add new contacts
(Thanks to NoCamels) An Israeli application, called Ringya, allows you to photograph and upload lists of contact addresses to your iPhone. It even recognises scrappy handwritten addresses, business cards etc.
On the crest of a wave
(Thanks to Israel21c) Prof. George Weiss, of Tel Aviv University has created a computer algorithm, which could substantially improve the functioning of wave energy converters used in producing electrical energy from ocean waves.
Tel Aviv to get electric buses
The Dan Bus Company, which serves Tel Aviv and its suburbs, has signed a deal with Chinese company BYD to buy up to 700 full-size totally electric buses over the next five months. Each bus will have a range of 100km and a 3-6 hour recharge time. Some buses will also have solar panels.