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Ringbow is a wearable ring device that enhances user interaction with touch devices, primarily designed for mobile gaming. It provides the functionalities of a mouse, keyboard and joystick simultaneously, enabling remote controlling for operating systems and applications.

The Israeli Scratch program, part of the miLAB at IDC in Herzliya, teaches young students programming concepts and skills in multimedia communication. Users are taught to make and share their own videos, animations and games.

Vidyoo is a recently launched Facebook platform, which offers online dating based on six-minute video chats. The app promises to help you meet people with similar interests and preferences and also allows you to control how much of your date’s video stream you see.

Israeli startup Deja provides iOS devices with curated channels of content from across the web. Users can share videos with their friends and also curate their own channels, based on their personal tastes and interests.

Opinion Stage, an Israeli startup for opinion surveys, has launched a new widget that easily allows bloggers and site owners to integrate polls on their pages and encourage reader interaction. Each debate page now includes a “get code” button that gives site owners the embed code to add the poll widget to their website.

BeeZee app for Android users sends automated text messages to contacts who call while you are in a meeting, cannot interrupt a conversation, or are otherwise busy. Users can determine the exact hours during which they will not be available.

Israeli cleantech startup EcoBasalt offers a new solution to oil spills: An absorbing volcanic material produced out of basalt fibers, which can later on be re-used for road construction.

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 company Better Air has created a system that improves air quality in homes, offices and hospitals - using probiotics - millions of "good bacteria" - to fight harmful bacteria.

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.

Israel's most popular female singer Rita has released an album in Persian, as a tribute to her country of origin - Iran. "I'm combining Hebrew and Persian so much together and I am showing that it is possible," she says.

A team of Israeli researchers has found that over a third of new mothers experienced post-traumatic symptoms after giving birth. The analysis found that a month after giving birth, 26% of the mothers suffered to some extent from symptoms typical of posttraumatic stress.

Minimally invasive device IceSense3 uses extremely cold temperatures to destroy fibroadenomas, common benign breast tumors. The Israeli invention now holds promise as a potential treatment for malignant breast tumors, after a successful clinical trial in Japan.