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Audiences today want more. Seeing their favorite band in concert, their sports team on the field or a Broadway show is no longer enough. The smartphone generation quickly loses interest, so the challenge is to keep them engaged. Soundit aims to do exactly that by adding an extra layer to live entertainment. It’s a wearable […]

We’ve all suffered the frustration of spending hours on the phone with customer services, switching from representative to representative to resolve a problem. In recent years, companies have been using online self-services and chatbots to handle queries. And most users actually prefer dealing with a computer than waiting for a person, especially for routine stuff. […]

Much has changed since the first pair of glasses in Italy, more than 900 years ago. But the basics, using a fixed lens to correct our vision, have not – until now. A startup in Israel applies a thin layer liquid crystal so that the strength of the lenses can instantly be changed. A single […]

Israel leads the world in researching and prescribing medical cannabis. Doctors have been legally offering it to patients since 1999 and Israel now imports more cannabis for medical use than any country in the world. But there are still barely 100 doctors who are licensed to prescribe it – out of around 30,000 – and […]

The weeks it takes to receive biopsy results for a cancer diagnosis can be debilitating. Patients are plagued by anxiety, depression, stress, and sleep disturbances. And they worry that every extra day they wait could delay the start to their treatment. But AI currently being tested in Israeli hospitals could change that, slashing the waiting […]

It’s summer, and the ritual of buying a new pair of flimsy plastic flip-flops for the beach begins again. They wear out, so you trash them, and the cycle repeats year after year. This ‘wear them and trash them’ cycle is one of the biggest contributors to plastic waste contamination in the world. But there’s […]