Category: Technology
Fear not, virtual reality is here to help
Posted on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Whether you’re afraid of the dark or spiders or gremlins under your bed, no fear is untreatable, according to a new treatment center in Herzliya Pituah. This new center uses virtual reality technology to help cure phobias, fears that start to take over your life, causing you to avoid every-day situations.
Using a process involving virtual reality, the clinic offers patients 3-D goggles that gradually expose them to their fear. The goggles come complete with sound for real effect and make the patient feel as though they were facing the object of their phobia. It really works, according to deputy chief of psychiatry Dr. Yehuda Sasson from Sheba Medical Center, who claims his “Fearless” clinic is the only place in the country offering virtual reality treatment for phobias.
And, you gotta love their website, www.fearless.org.il
Israeli web2.0 startups getting major investments, new record reached
Posted on September 18, 2007 | 1 Comment
CNN Money reports that investments in web2.0 companies reached over $465 million in the first half of 2007, a growth of 7% from last year, making the amount a new record. Israel and Europe are responsible for most of this growth, reports a recent DowJones and Ernst & Young LLP study.
CNN Money says, “Israeli Web 2.0 companies had their best showing to date, raising US$15 million in five deals in the first half, up from two deals and US$5 million invested in all of 2006.”
See our previous posts about Israeli web2.0 startups here and here
Israel-based blogTV: live version of YouTube
Posted on September 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
People are taking bets on who is going to be the live version of YouTube, and there’s a good chance that it’ll be Israel-based blogTV. Recently, blogTV introduced a Facebook application that lets people watch live videos from their profile widget. The first live video streamed on Facebook was PulverTV, run by Jeff Pulver, a major player in the Israeli startup scene. blogTV is clearly a big fan of Jeff Pulver - they streamed the Black Eyed Peas concert live in Jerusalem that Pulver put together and even wrote about it on their blog.
BusinessWeek and Wired - slight delay on traffic technology report
Posted on September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Reading today’s BusinessWeek and Wired online magazines, I was surprised to find it took these cutting-edge magazines over four months to report on the Technion-created traffic technology that we covered back in April. My question is this, why did it take so long and why the sudden interest? Are the magazines slacking on the latest technologies? Or, are American roads catching up to Israel’s notorious reckless driving and illogical traffic patterns? When completed, the technology is set to prevent accidents at intersections by delaying the signals if necessary. You can read more in our earlier post.
Moms to be replaced by refrigerators and doors
Posted on September 10, 2007 | 2 Comments
Are parents so last year? Who needs ‘em when you can have electronic messages on the fridge telling the kids when to brush their teeth, eat their dinner, and go to karate class. Thanks to Scribbler, a new Israeli technology, parents can just email their home computer and have the message appear on a mini-touch screen anywhere you can stick it. Read more»
PHP & Wordpress come home to Israel for major blogging conference
Posted on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Technion Institute in Haifa has accomplished so much, it’s hard to keep track. I just discovered that the Technion was behind the creation of PHP, a database-driven computer programming language. Cool to some. Geeky to others. However, note that PHP is the language used to power over 20 million websites, and many blogs on a platform called Wordpress (this blog included).
Bringing it home. Israeli bloggers should get ready for a major blogging conference called WordCamp, set to take place around the holiday of Sukkot, in October. Click here for updates and more info. Read more»
Anticipation grows for a Flying Car
Posted on September 4, 2007 | 1 Comment
Watch out Jetsons, the X-Hawk flying car is coming out soon. The company behind X-Hawk, Israeli-based Urban Aeronautics releases updates on the development so you can keep track of which motors are being added where and what stage of production they’re at.
However, Israelis should master driving on regular roads before they attempt the flying variation.
Mempile developing disc that holds a large library
Posted on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
1 terabyte (TB) = 1,024 gigabyte (GB) = 1,048,576 megabytes (MB)= 1,073,741,824 kilobytes (KB) = a ridiculously large number of bytes.
One TB is approximately 1,610 CDs worth of data. Or the information storied in one large library.
Got it?
So considering that one TB is, well, humongous, it’s quite amazing to think that Israeli Mempile says it’s able to fit 1 TB on the TeraDiscTM, a disc the size of a CD. Yes, the information from one large library will fit in the palm of your hand. Read more»
Genealogy startups share Jewish roots?
Posted on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment
The hot thread on major tech sites is about the intense competition between My Hertiage, Famillion, and Geni, the latest web2.0 genealogy sites. Many of the comments on Techcrunch mention their surprise of all these startups coming from Israel. They should be impressed, here is a list of all the web2.0 startups from Israel. Read more»
New Digital Image technology - no more awkward resizing
Posted on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan from the The Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel have created revolutionary techniques in the world of digital image resizing. Read more at Israel Times
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