Israel Active

Israeli company BioHug Technologies demonstrated their BioHug Vest – for calming people with autism or those just with high stress levels. The vest was invented by an Israeli whose autistic child could not bear human hugs.

(Israel21c & phys.org) Fresh looks at the ecosystem built by Ben-Gurion University and the Central and Northern Arava Research and Development Center. It produces a variety of freshwater and salt-hardy crops that feed on saline wastewater from the solar-powered desalination process.

Japanese visitors to CleanTech 2012 in Tel Aviv included Dr Daisuke Mishima who wanted Israeli companies to help reconstruct area of the country destroyed by last year’s earthquake and tsunami.

(Thanks to NoCamels) Currently, DNA found at a crime scene has to find a match in the police databases, to play a part in catching the criminal. But now researchers at Israel’s Tel-Hai Academic College are developing a chip that can use unmatched DNA to identify the sex, height, age, hair colour and type, eye colour and ethnic background of the offender — and even if he/she is right or left-handed.

(Thanks to NoCamels) This Israeli smartphone application allows you to connect with a group of your friends within a 1000-meter radius. For music events, parties, conferences or waiting for buses, trains or planes. Free for users, but businesses are charged to create events.

Two Israeli hi-tech companies are well placed for the imminent release of Windows 8, which supports gesture recognition. eyeSight and PointGrab have 95% of the market in gesture technology and will be raising their hands in anticipation of their products being shipped with the new laptops.

(Thanks to NoCamels) In the “always-on” world of mobile phones, this handy Israeli application will inform your friends, family, customers etc. why you cannot answer their call. If your smartphone seems to be almost surgically attached to your body, BeeZee could really change your life.

Israeli start-up Cortica has image recognition software that can analyse a photo or video then match it up with a relevant advertisement. It has huge marketing potential. Neuroscientists Josh Zeevi and Karina Odinaev first developed the technology when they were studying at Israel’s Technion.

I was sure that Israeli technology would be involved in the current Mars mission. Siemens Israel developed Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) and NASA used it to accurately model how the Mars vehicle “Curiosity” would perform tens of millions of miles from earth.

It’s a toilet that requires no water or electricity and its end product can simply be put on the compost. Israel’s Paulee Cleantech so impressed the Gates Foundation that they have awarded it an $110,000 grant. The same company makes the AshPoopie that deals with dog waste (featured here last year).