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New Game Turns Your iPad Into A Piano
A new game for iPads will help you learn to read sheet music and play the piano, by helping a virtual granny dust off her piano from germs. The game doesn’t require a real piano and comes with a 3D virtual keyboard.
May 02, 2012
Become A Safe ‘Super Driver’ With iOnRoad App
An Israeli tech veteran came up with a “treatment” for what in 2010 was the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States – road accident fatalities. Drivers who use his iOnRoad app become “super drivers” who are much more likely to get home alive, the CEO says.
May 02, 2012
Yotpo: Personalized Search Engine For Online Reviews
Yotpo is an Israeli startup that aims to help you reach the reviews most relevant for you, offering a personalized social review search engine, currently spanning over 30 million reviews. Its filtering system is based on parameters such as the reviewer’s relation to the searcher, according to his social profile.
April 25, 2012
Israeli Technology Allows Growing Fish In The Desert
Israeli company Grow Fish Anywhere (GFA), offers a solution to overfishing and pollution caused by fish farming. Their technology allows farmers to grow fish anywhere, even in extreme environments like the desert or urban areas.
April 22, 2012
BuzzDoes: New Take On Mobile App Marketing?
The Israeli Startup BuzzDoes offers mobile developers a tool to market their apps by turning the users into “marketing agents”. Each time a user recommends the apps using BuzzDoes, they are rewarded with points that can be exchanged for money.
April 21, 2012
Israeli 3D Printer Co ‘Objet’ Merges With American ‘Stratasys’
Israeli 3D printer company Objet is merging with its American counterpart Stratasys, creating a 3D printing giant with an equity value of approximately $1.4 billion. Objet creates prototypes for companies in the automotive, electronics, toys, jewelry and footwear industries.
April 17, 2012
Biodegradable Balloons Isolate Tumors To Reduce Radiation Risks
A biodegradable balloon that isolates tumors from healthy tissues is able to minimize radiation exposure to healthy organs in prostate cancer sufferers. The technology, by Israeli startup BioProtect, is already marketed in Europe.
April 16, 2012
Cleantech Co Produces Low-Cost Electricity From Waves
Israeli company SDE utilizes the motion of sea waves to produce low cost electricity. It was lately ranked by international scientists as the world’s number one developer of Sea Wave Energy Technologies. The system takes advantage of the wave's speed, height, depth, rise and fall - and the flow beneath the approaching wave to produce energy.
April 08, 2012
Startup Incubator Embraces New Immigrants To Israel
TheHive is a new startup incubator for people who recently moved to Israel. It offers them a six-month program to provide them guidance and tools to find local opportunities and connections.
April 01, 2012
Startup 2Tangos: Location-Based Tandem Learning Online
2Tangos is an Israeli knowledge bank that offers location-based connections for online tandem learning. Users can pass on their skills in return for someone else’s knowledge: cooking secrets for German classes, guitar for sculpting etc.
March 21, 2012
Israeli Company Creates Solar-Panel Windows To Power Buildings
Pythagoras Solar develops windows with built-in solar panels that increase energy efficiency and renewable power generation for buildings. The solar cells, based on patent-pending optical technology, are adaptable and can be installed in almost any kind of window.
March 20, 2012
GroupShot: Swap Your Face To Get The Perfect Picture
GroupShot is an Israeli-developed app that gives you a chance to make everyone look their best. The app selects the best parts from two or more pictures and integrates them into one perfect group shot.
March 14, 2012
New App Brings Album Sleeve Into the Digital Era
iAlbums is an iPhone app that aims to bring a little bit of that old school feeling of buying a record, a casette tape, or even CD. Developed in Israel, the app allows users to listen to music with the additional features of looking up lyrics and reading reviews and artist interviews
March 13, 2012
Trendit: Mapping Population Movements Through Mobile Signals
Israeli startup Trendit provides real-time traffic and demographic data, using a simple tool - our mobile signals. The company’s People Analytics tool allows businesses to characterize the type of customers who pass by their stores, as well as length of stay.
March 12, 2012
App Backed By Former Mossad Chief Helps Plant Breeders Collect Field Data
An Israeli bio-informatics software company developed a web-based platform and Android app to answer the needs of plant breeders. The system enables breeders to follow the entire lineage of a plant and provides them with statistical analysis.
March 04, 2012