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.

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.

The Israeli startup Folloyu allows web visitors to switch devices while browsing, without losing any information or progress. Based on QR code scanning, they can start an online order on a PC and continue from that exact spot on their smartphone. The company hopes to contribute to e-commerce and decrease shopping-cart abandonment.

Wibbitz, a startup that coverts text and articles into videos in a matter of seconds, yesterday closed a funding round of approximately $3 million. The startup, dounded in 2011, hope to change the way we consume content online.

Fanograph offers a new tagging experience using an advanced technology for multi billion pixel and 360° panoramic images of crowds. Participants of mass events can easily identify themselves in the crowd, tag their friends and share their experience with thousands of people.

After 10 years of R&D, Israeli printing entrepreneur Benny Landa introduced his new contribution to the printing revolution: Nanography printers that use tiny pigments of water-based particles, which are only tens of nanometers in size and can print on almost any material.

Israeli startup Umoove created a hands-free solution for mobile devices. Their algorithm, using the mobile camera, can detect facial and eye movements in real time and operate functions such as dialing or launching applications.

Intel is launching research in Israel into technology that mimics the human brain and develops devices that learn about their user. “Despite their name, smartphones are rather dumb devices. My smartphone doesn’t know anything more about me than when I got it. All of these devices will come to know us as individuals."