The energy around auto tech has surged in recent years, as consumer infotainment and safety gadgetry has found its way into cars.
One company, on the safety tech side, has started the traditional pre-IPO tour soon-to-be public companies do, to talk to press and investors and to drum up buzz.
Israel-based Mobileye makes a series of windshield-mounted cameras that provide a warning (via a dash-mounted display) if it appears that an accident is eminent. The technology is already used in more than 3 million vehicles made by BMW, General Motors, and others.
Reading someone’s facial expressions; looking at the night sky, or browsing the internet – these are mundane tasks that hardly require our attention. But not everyone can call them routine; for the 285 million people worldwide who are visually impaired, these simple tasks are nearly impossible.
Known as the Startup Nation, Israeli startups have now taken their expertise in innovation and technology to create revolutionary tools for the blind and visually impaired.
Here are ten Israeli companies whose vision is brightening the lives of those who cannot see.
Roaring crowds, fans decked out in national flags, nail-biting overtimes, unexpected twists and turns and hilarious Suarez and Howard memes. The 2014 World Cup is well under way, and while Israel may not be in the running for the glorious title, the Startup Nation sure does know a thing or two about winning sports fans over. In honor of the 2014 World Cup, NoCamels proudly presents the ten most cutting-edge Israeli companies re-inventing the world of competitive sports.
By 2050, one-third of the world’s energy will need to come from renewable sources, like solar or wind. No, this isn’t a statement made by environmental organizations, but by two of the world’s largest oil companies, British Petroleum (BP) and Shell.
For countries like Iceland, which is already generating 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources, that statistic doesn’t sound ominous, but for the majority of the world’s countries who are still dependent on fossil fuels, it’s time to start thinking about what will power mankind’s way forward.
The specific tactics and technology being used by the IDF to find three teens said kidnapped by Hamas are, of course, top secret. But it’s pretty likely that the army is making use of the technology developed by Israel’s Camero-Tech Ltd.
This technology can “see” through solid walls, providing soldiers with an “inside view” of closed rooms, bunkers, basements, and other redoubts where the kidnappers are possibly holding the Israelis.
Israel has been coined the “Startup Nation”; the country with the highest concentration of startups in the world. Over the past 63 years, thousands of Israeli startups have given rise to innovations in fields as diverse as irrigation; GPS navigation; and cherry tomatoes.
But which are the Israeli startups that are truly changing the world?
We’ve picked 10 startups that we believe have impacted the world for the better or are in the process of changing lives forever.
Artificial intelligence seems to be on the minds of the world’s leading innovators and entrepreneurs these days, as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla owner Elon Musk, former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel and actor Ashton Kutcher reportedly invested millions of dollars in San Francisco-based start up Vicarious, which specializes in the development of advanced computational models and machine learning software.
The multi-million dollar investment in the company, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal last week, comes only a month after Google bought the AI company Deep Mind for $400 million.
For making apps smarter and more sympathetic. Inside an app, nobody can hear you scream--except the Israeli firm Nice Systems, whose customer-service solutions are used by 25,000 companies. Last year, it rolled out Mobile Reach, software that works in the background of banking, retail, and other apps, and jumps in to help a user the minute she's frustrated. "Enterprises no longer simply pay lip service to customer service," says Nice's director of solutions marketing, Tamar Sharir. Its research finds that smartphone users fail to complete about 60% of transactions, and only 64% of them then call the company for help.
Hace un par de semanas tuve el honor de ser invitado por el gobierno de Israel para analizar en profundidad el ecosistema emprendedor del país, considerado como uno de los más potentes del planeta. Hay muchas conclusiones que iré desgranando en varios post, pero me gustaría empezar haciendo un resumen de los puntos clave, muy aplicables para España.
In case you missed it, the 2012 World Food Prize went to Daniel Hillel, an Israeli scientist who, in his own words, "...helped to develop the principle of shifting from low-frequency, high-volume irrigation to high-frequency, low-volume irrigation", the system known as drip irrigation.
