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Now thanks to Israel’s Keepod, you can use any computer and it will look just like the one you have at home. This new device will retrieve your bookmarks, settings, and secure identity.

President Peres plans a huge museum. He said “Israel must serve as a centre of attraction for both creativity and wisdom, and Einstein possesses these two elements. Every single tourist arriving in Israel will want to visit the museum.”

Using its high position on the Carmel slopes, the building is able to use its surplus water pressure to generate electricity. The idea won first prize in the Technion’s Energy Conservation Competition. Runner up ideas were energy usage screens and energy from the Technion’s gym.

Two scientists from The Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University have discovered a method that could prove the existence of the universal force predicted by Albert Einstein in 1918.

Google Israel’s R&D centre has helped digitise five of the 2000 year-old texts that were discovered between 1947 and 1956. Special flash photography was used to protect the scrolls.

Israel’s Towntouch has developed a new innovative platform that identifies the location of the phone and sends information on special deals in nearby stores.

Prof. Shlomo Navarro, co-founder of Israel’s Bio[pack], has launched a new non-toxic solution that prevents insect infestation in packaged foods.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed super-conducting wires using fibres made of single crystals of sapphire. Each wire can carry approximately 40 times more electricity than a copper wire of the same size and have the potential to revolutionize energy transfer.

Heliofocus and the Weizmann institute have built a 35-meter high experimental device that generates electricity by heating air, instead of current water or oil-based devices.

Technion graduate David Perlmutter took the decision that made it possible for you to read this newsletter. (More in the book ‘Israel – Start-up Nation’ by Senor and Singer.)