Technology

Scientists in Israel have found a novel way to get images through scattering materials, such as frosted glass or skin. The researchers hope the new method could play a significant role in medical imaging.

The Israeli startup Tucoola developed a social game-based platform, to help preschool children improve their basic cognitive skills. The website, consisting of games to enhance memory, planning and hand-eye coordination, offers personalized reports and tips for parents.

Israeli app WeTrip allows travelers to get real-time travel information on the go, write traveling tips and feedback and contact others traveling in the same area.

Israeli startup Bizzabo helps make schmoozing at events a whole lot easier with an app that allows browsing attendees profiles and messaging with them. It also allows organizers to know their audience and engage with them.

For the first time, a person lying in an fMRI machine was able to control a robot just by thinking about his movements. The Israeli student connected to a brain scanner induced a robot to walk around a lab in France by thought.

New Israeli startup Groovideo produces and edits a number of clips taped by different people and integrates them into one video. The service is available for all operating systems and as a web based service.

With only a sample of saliva, a new software can better pinpoint the geographic origins of an individual’s genes.The new software can predict people’s origins within 100 km of the correct location and takes the curvature of the Earth into account to make it more accurate than older software.

IBM is testing a new augmented-reality mobile shopping app that enables retailers to personalize each individual customer’s shopping experience right from the palm of their hands, via their smart phone or tablet.

An Israeli research team is harnessing millions of years of evolution to create the world's smallest unmanned aerial vehicles. The researchers are decoding the muscular activity of insects in flight, then translating it into a code that can be used to trigger their movement.

A new app developed by an Israeli team helps Facebook users separate friends from fiends. The app, called Social Privacy Protector, identifies a user’s friends who might pose a threat and consists of three layers of protection.

American and Israeli researchers have been able to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second, which is considered to be the fastest wireless network ever created. At the moment, they've only transmitted signals as far as one meter.

JobsMiner is as a job aggregator that uses Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google Plus to find hidden jobs which job seekers may not be aware of. It is focusing on the US market and will soon turn to Spanish and Israeli job-hunters as well.

For owners worried about their dog's safety, a new system developed in Israel is able to recognize when a dog feels threatened or is stressed and then send an SMS to the pet owner's mobile phone.

Startup Uppsite converts websites into functioning native or web apps within two minutes, free of charge. The apps allow user engagement and social sharing - and are even submitted to the various app stores by Uppsite.

Microsoft Israel introduced a tool that allows users to remotely program their Android phones to respond to certain situations. To trigger their phone, users can choose from a variety of events, such as detection of a new Wi-Fi network, arrival to a specific destination or even parking a car.