Category: Technology
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
Cool Facts about Israel 2.0
Posted on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Second version of the Cool Facts about Israel series. Good work on the research, not so into the music. Maybe something in Hebrew would be appropriate? What do I know? Click here to see the first version.
Coming out party for solar energy
Posted on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The most dramatic presentation of Israel’s solar energy breakthrough. Scorching the earth. Relentless rays. Giant mirrors. 1000 suns. Huge concave mirrors. World’s biggest solar energy plant. Pay attention to the intonation in the journalist’s voice. Who knew solar energy would be the next soap opera.
For more information about the solar park to be built by Solel in the U.S. desert click here.
Israel’s “Save a Child’s Heart” brings Rwandan children for heart treatment
Posted on August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), in Israeli organization, has brought five Rwandan children with heart disease to Tel Aviv last week for operations. The children range in age from a few months old to 15 years old. They will be operated on in the Wolfson Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
SACH has brought 1700 children from 27 countries in the past 12 years for heart surgery so far. Rwanda is the 28th country. Read more»
Israel web cams: Real-time activity of the Kotel and Israeli cities
Posted on August 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Webcamplaza provides us with a real-time view of the Kotel (western wall) in Jerusalem using live video and sound. Check out the Kotel web cam.
You can also watch the traffic (fun fun fun!) at Kibbutz Galuyot or see who’s swimming at the Kesaria beach. Check out various Israeli webcams. This is your chance to be famous. All you have to do is figure out where to stand and then wave to the camera!
Indian and Israeli Navy officials discuss co-developement of unmanned helicopters
Posted on August 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Israel navy chief Vice Admiral David Ben Bashat visited India last week to discuss, among other defense-related issues, a possible joint effort in developing unmanned combat helicopters.
In 1992 Israel and India regained diplomatic relations. Since that cautious beginning, Israel has become India’s second largest supplier of arms after Russia. India purchased $1.6 billion worth of arms from Israel last year (out of a total of $4.2 billion sold by Israel worldwide). Read more»
Israel-developed collapsible system for escaping from tall structures
Posted on August 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
New study: Internet Addiction Disorder… awkward!
Posted on August 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
The ironies abound in talking about Internet Addiction Disorder… on the Internet. Apparently, a new Israeli study says that 10% of internet users are being diagnosed with Internet Addiction Disorder. Among the symptoms is increasing social awkwardness since the lines become blurred between online personalities and reality. Thank goodness I could write to you about this rather than talking to you about it in person. Read more»
New time travel theory - pretty freaky
Posted on August 9, 2007 | 19 Comments
What really happened during the 2nd century? Is Jurassic Park real? What about Sliders? (does anyone remember that show?) Professor Amos Ori, a physicist at Haifa’s Technion Institute has developed a complex physics theory that makes time travel not such a crazy idea after all. A few donut-vacuums and we’re on our way. Mmm.. donuts. Read more»
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