Technology

One of the major technological revolutions of the past few years has been the touch-screen. But it seems that trend may already be passé, with the touch-less technology becoming the real star. And it's all happening in Israel.

If all goes according to plan, by December 2012 a team of three young Israeli scientists will have landed a tiny spacecraft on the moon, explored the lunar surface, and transmitted live video back to earth, thereby scooping up a $20 million prize.

When distributors of Viagra, porn and the like want to plant their advertisements over the net, they use automated scripts, or "spambots." Israeli company SiteBlackBox, specializes in detecting automated spambot processes in websites.

A new service being developed in Haifa, Israel, called Lexifone, claims to solve the linguistics barrier between tourist and local. Simply put, you will be able to say the desired sentences to your phone, after which it will translate it to your interlocutor in his language.

The world's first agricultural "cloud" system will help farmers around the world with pest control; pricing; international regulations, all according to their individual needs.

You’ve probably all become familiar with face recognition software like Picasa, Windows Live Photo Gallery or even on Facebook. Going one step further, Microsoft Israel unveiled OneVision, a technology that can track and identify anyone not just in photos, but in video.

Israeli and Palestinian geeks joined forces to build web and mobile applications in only 54 hours at Start-Up Weekend. 125 entrepreneurs, developers, designers and investors gathered recently to create 10 different applications with commercial viability.

“What’s the word I’m looking for?” One of the most common phrases and an especially annoying one if you're still scratching your brain for that missing word hours later. Encountering this problem themselves, two Israelis have developed PhraseUp – a website that aims to find your word.

A space engineer who drove by a car crash not knowing his own brother was the victim has developed an iPhone application that automatically sends an email with your coordinates to a loved one in a case of an accident.

Israel's Mantissa Ltd. says it has developed and successfully demonstrated a miniature radar/surveillance system the size of a personal camera.

Friends from an elite army intelligence unit have created a smart-phone application that compresses data received by the device, which could lead to a large reduction on your next phone bill.

The days when we place our cell phones on the table and screen films and TV shows from it are quickly approaching. Several companies have been racing to be the first to launch wireless projectors smaller than a little finger.

An Israeli start up company is trying to democratize music with its new computer game, by fusing the fun of a game, with the difficult stages of learning an instrument.

Search engines are getting smarter by the minute- after Google’s revolution in text based sites, a new kind of search engine uses patent-pending computer vision algorithms that can actually see the video’s content.

Games developer Funtactix signed an agreement with Paramount Digital Entertainment to create Web-based virtual worlds for Paramount Pictures films.