Technology

Meet the mother of all standing wheelchairs- the UPnRIDE. This device from the makers of ReWalk allows the handicapped to explore the outdoors and reach their counter tops with ease.

The EIMindA helmet knows what you're thinking, but it won't use that information against you. This futuristic Israeli innovation will tell you and your doctors how healthy your brain is.

As wearable tech becomes an integral part of our lives, Israeli companies are making important strides in this growing sector, creating everything from conception timers to smart helmets and smartphone projectors.

VoiceItt is developing TalkItt, a speech technology app that recognizes unintelligible speech spoken by people with speech impairment and translates it into any understandable language, in any language.

An Israeli company has put out a game that is not just for fun, it’s meant to prevent recurrence of the giant hack that netted a Russian gang 1.2 billion usernames and passwords in the “Heartbleed” fiasco. It’s time for attention to Internet security to move to the front seat.

Our pets make the world go round, so why not make their lives easier with technology too? From television programs geared towards dogs to sensors that will tell you what your dog's bark means, Israeli innovators have thought of it all when it comes to pet-tech.

For the founders of any startup, the defining moment of success is to have their company go public on NASDAQ. In 2014, six Israeli companies are hoping to live out this dream, raising an aggregate total of $883 million. It looks like going public is the new exit.

From the creators of mobli and popular messaging app Yo! comes the latest temporary messaging competitor - MIRAGE. Moshe Hogeg's latest venture will allow you to send "disappearing" photo, video, text and voice messages to all of your contacts.

With already 2 million registered users, Israeli-developed recipe and culinary advice application Look & Cook provides the best tips and handcrafted recipes from some of the world's leading chefs, like Mario Batali, James Beard and Israel's own Meir Adoni.

Tech people aren’t overly concerned about the anti-Israel, even anti-Semitic headlines that have been cropping up in places like India and Ireland over the conflict with Hamas in Gaza. Relations between the high-tech industries there and the “Start-Up Nation” are just fine, they say.

Every year, Business Insider gives a shout-out to women in the tech industry with its list of "most powerful women engineers in the world." This year, the publication featured 22 women, of which three were Israeli, by far the largest number of any country when compared to Israel's small size and population.

Over five billion people have access to a mobile phone, but not a physician. This statement is particularly true in the developing world, which is why Israeli company MobileOCT has created a mobile- phone attachment that can screen for cancer.

Known as the Startup Nation, Israeli startups have now taken their expertise in innovation and technology to create revolutionary tools for the blind and visually impaired. Here are ten Israeli companies whose vision is brightening the lives of those who cannot see.

You may know Israel as the Startup Nation, but you may not know that in three months alone, 175 Israeli high-tech companies raised a total of $930 million, breaking a quarterly record from the year 2000. Find out why Israeli startups are such a hot-spot for venture capital investment.

What if reading glasses could be made obsolete using a mobile eye-training game over a period of three months? This may sound like a ridiculous proposition, but it's the way GlassesOff is training 40-60 year-olds to ditch their reading glasses for good.