Technology

Face.com is an Israeli startup founded in 2008 that provides websites and mobile apps with code to implement face recognition. So far, Face.com, which is free and is used by Facebook and Twitter, has recognized or detected 35 billion faces.

As movies and television move increasingly toward online delivery, broadcast networks, movie studios and advertisers are all frantically searching for new ways to monetize their offerings. Enter Tel Aviv-based Innovid, which just received a fresh infusion of $9.5 million in capital. Its goal: To turbo-charge the pre-roll.

Haifa-based company called Lexifone is releasing its much-awaited product this month, an advanced automatic interpretation/translation software, all without the need for an Internet connection or even a Smartphone.

Ipris has come up with the "keyboard of the future" for smartphone and tablets. The keyboard uses an intuitive way of writing based on the movements of the fingers rather than pressing a certain point on the screen.

Startup TicTacTi thinks it has found a solution for easy and quick monetization of online games. TicTacTi's says its technology enables dynamic insertion of advertisements into any game, application, or video.

Israel currently has almost 4,000 active technology start-ups - more than any other country outside the United States, according to Israel Venture Capital Research Centr. Watch this BBC report to understand how it happened.

A new iPad app aims to re-invent the veteran music-sheet by being the first interactive “musical kindle.” The Tonara app is the first interactive sheet music app that listens to people while they play music or sing.

Instead of braving the 4 AM crowds in search of a bargain during the holiday season, the Israeli start-up Superfish has developed an improved virtual shopping technology to better the online shopping experience.

No more queuing in supermarkets? No more waiting for the cashier to scan every item in your shopping bag? That's what a new startup company says is in store for us if their product takes off. With ShelfX, all a customer has to do in order to purchase an item is use their mobile phone or a ShelfX Card to scan a product.

Two Israelis have developed a mobile application designed to keep tired drivers awake by shouting trivia questions. The app, called Drivia, quizzes drivers about sports or music and sounds loud and frequent alerts if the driver responds too slowly, combining entertainment with safety.

Colorful, a new Windows phone application, says it can act as eyes for the color blind. The app enables users to distinguish colors using their phone's camera - using filters to change the color schemes and to fit the users color vision deficiency.

Korean phone maker Pantech is incorporating Israeli gesture recognition technology in its latest product release, suggesting movement control may be the next must-have smartphone feature.

The new Israeli technology startup Julpan, recently acquired by Twitter, claims to improve search engines' algorithm within social media, by giving the user the most relevant pages for him, not by popularity ranking but by the content of social network users.

The Advanced Virtuality Lab at the IDC in Herzliya is developing the next generation of human-computer interfaces. BEAMING: Surround video conference, virtual and augmented reality and specialized robotics that will allow you to be in two place at once.

Coming to pet shops in 2012: An Israeli pooper-scooper that turns droppings into harmless, odorless ash within seconds. The idea came from an Israeli who got fined for failing to pick up the droppings and decided to contact a Hebrew University professor for a better solution.