Winning Online Shopping Startup Says Goodbye Tailors, Hello Webcams
A new startup, which was named startup of the year, can make your trips to the tailor completely unnecessary: Using a standard webcam, the free software can measure your exact body dimensions and provide you with your clothing size and fit. The details can then be passed on to online clothing websites.
January 24, 2012
Listen-App: Serendip Makes Everyone A DJ
The free music player Serendip allows its users to follow other users with similiar taste in music. The playlists it designs are based on music uploaded by millions of social network users in real time. “Serendip connects people who wouldn’t necessarily connect socially. Now they connect through music,” says company CEO.
January 21, 2012
New Bird-Tracking Radar To Avoid Deadly Airplane Collisions
The Israeli Air Force is using bird-tracking radar technology to ensure safe aviation over Israeli skies, one of the busiest junctions of avian migration routes worldwide. The system, developed at Tel Aviv University, can tell pilots where the birds will be in real time.
January 20, 2012
Sci-Fi Glasses Can Display Email Or GPS Over field Of Vision
Lumus, an Israeli company, specializes in what it calls Light-guide Optical Element (LOE) technology. Its latest product is the PD-18-2, which may look to the untrained eye like a cumbersome pair of sunglasses. But inside the lenses of the glasses, the user can see high-quality full color images.
January 18, 2012
Small-Business? Israeli Platform To Provide All Your Management Tools
An Israeli company that provides a package of management services for small and micro businesses worldwide secured an $8 million investment from Morgenthaler Ventures after launching v 2.0. SohoOS says it hopes to leverage the power of many small-businesses to come together and create a combined strength.
January 16, 2012
Israeli Social To-Do App Voted Best App Of 2011
Any.DO is an Israeli social to-do app that helps its users organize their tasks in better, more creative ways. It offers features such as online sharing and physical gestures and will most likely help you decrease your procrastination habits.
January 14, 2012
The Keyboard Without Keys
Jerusalem-based Snapkeys makes a smartphone app that lets you easily type without using a keyboard, with the text input easier than the usual “soft” keyboard you get with your touch cellphone.
January 11, 2012
XTR3D Launches Motion Recognition Technology
A Tel Aviv based firm called XTR3D will launch a new touch-less, motion recognition technology to be used on multiple devices early this year. The company claims its software can exist with built-in software and can be installed on any consumer electronic device.
January 09, 2012
The Social (WiFi) Network
An Israeli company has developed a system that helps take the pressure off 3G data networks by “off-loading” usage to WiFi hotspots. The company, called WeFi, provides an application of the same name that lets you search and find millions – over 100 million, in fact – open Wifi hotspots all over the world!
January 03, 2012
Face.com: Facial Recognition For The Masses
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.
December 26, 2011
Video Pre-Rolls Are Given Interactive Makeover With Innovid
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.
December 24, 2011
Speak Any Language With New Real-Time Voice Translation
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.
December 17, 2011
Israeli Technology Enables ‘Blind Typing’ On Touchscreen
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.
December 10, 2011
Augmented Reality Advertisement Enters Online Gaming World
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.
December 07, 2011
BBC Video: How Israel Became A Hi-Tech Hub
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.
December 06, 2011