A “watch” that stops unnecessary heart attack deaths. GE is banking on Oxitone wrist monitor to provide a heads-up for someone to get medical assistance before it’s too late.
About half of all people at risk of death from heart attacks could gain the chance to live, once Israeli entrepreneur Leon Eisen’s new Oxitone device goes to market in about 18 months. Using two optical sensors, and another special high-tech tool, he’s developed the world’s first “watch” that can just about tell when your time may be up.
It’s no joke: Oxitone was developed to cheat fate.
Eisen tells ISRAEL21c that about half of the people who die from cardiac or pulmonary arrest would be alive if someone had been there to get them to the hospital in time. Oxitone is made to be worn on the wrist to provide a heads-up for someone to get medical assistance on their own, before it’s too late.
With all the technology out there — personal monitoring devices, crocodile clips for your finger, even those panic buttons — nothing helps if the user is not able to mobilize these devices in time. And many patients may not be able to read the signs that cardiac arrest is imminent.
That’s why Eisen developed a wearable watch-like mobile device –– synched with Bluetooth, Android or iPhone devices –– that takes minute-by-minute readings of heart rate and oxygen levels in the blood.
So potentially “disruptive” is this advance that Oxitone recently was chosen from 400 applicants to be among 13 companies – and the only Israeli one — in GE Healthcare’s Start-Up Health Academy Entrepreneurship Program. The three-year program provides healthcare entrepreneurs the tools to propel their product into the healthcare market.
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Israelis developing ‘Google Glass’ for the blind
Israeli researchers are using holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing a new strategy for bionic vision restoration.
In the not-so-distant future, people blinded by retinitis pigmentosa may be using Israeli technology to see beyond shadows once again.
Israeli researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have found a futuristic and bionic way to bypass neural circuitry and directly stimulate restored vision cells with a computer-driven technique called holography. The researchers have developed a tool to photo-stimulate retinal cells with precision and high resolution, suggesting that one day in the not-so-distant future, people blinded by RP may see beyond shadows once again.
“It’s something like Google Glass for the blind,” Prof. Shy Shoham from the Technion tells ISRAEL21c, referring to Google’s wearable computer with a head-mounted display, set to be released later this year. “We did not develop optogenetics and it’s a young technology, but it is firmly established and the potential is recognized. What is missing, and what we are offering, is a powerful solution driving the neural networks of these optogenetically restored cells.”
Shoham explains, “What our system will do is activate these cells with patterns. It’s a system that drives the projection of ‘movies’ powerful enough to stimulate retinal cells artificially.” Like any responsible scientist, Shoham, an engineer and lead scientist of this new research presented in Nature Communications, is not offering false hope to people who are already blind. Unfortunately, he cannot help them. But if a significant financial investment were to be made in the project, “clear” results could be seen in the future.
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A windfall for Israel’s ‘waterfall’ sewage treatment firm. Mapal breaks into British market with its unique system for faster and more efficient treatment of wastewater.
By Karin Kloosterman for Israel21c
Mapal’s technology cleans up British wastewater.
The soles of his shoes might have worn thin from all the road shows and networking events he’s been attending in Britain, but several years of hard work have paid off for Ze’ev Fisher, the CEO of Mapal. Mapal (“waterfall” in Hebrew) just announced a second round of financing and its first sale in the UK of its unique sewage treatment solution. Mapal’s flagship product, custom-built, aerates bacteria in wastewater treatment plants so that human waste can decompose more quickly and efficiently.
It was an uphill battle getting into the British market, which is privatized yet conservative and resistant to change, Fisher tells ISRAEL21c candidly. He and his team of seven are therefore especially pleased by the sale of an installation to Anglian Water, a UK utilities company serving more than four million people in Stanbridgeford, north of London.
Another UK installation is soon to follow, says Fisher, and he hopes these two deals could lead to a landslide of business in the UK, where about 2,000 aging open-pond sewage systems need upgrading to stay in line with new environmental standards. The Israeli solution fits what are called “excavated biological reactor ponds” and lagoons where fine-bubble aeration was not a viable solution before. Mapal also upgrades larger reactors.
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Israel’s Dip-Tech turns building façades into art. An Israeli company is leading the digital glass printing revolution and turning buildings into beautiful pieces of art
By Viva Sarah Press for Israel21c
AFIMALL in Moscow features a photorealistic design of a typical Russian forest, digitally printed in-glass on 2,650 panes.
Stained glass is one of the main attractions at many of the world’s famous churches. An Israeli company has decided to take this colorful craft to the next level. It’s called Dip-Tech, and thanks to its innovative digital glass printing solution, ordinary-looking buildings are turned into extraordinary landmarks. Printing on glass is not groundbreaking. But printing on glass with durable ceramic inks by digitally transferring images onto the panes of glass is revolutionary.
Since kicking off business in 2005 in the town of Kfar Saba, just outside of Tel Aviv, the company’s unique solution has converted hospitals, shopping centers, museums, office buildings and universities around the world into pieces of art. In Australia, there’s the new Munday Wall, an enormous eight-by-nine-meter mural featuring an indigenous painting reproduced onto glass. The Harlem Hospital in New York is another great example, with its full-color building façade made of glass panels in the colors and styles of 1930s Harlem art and culture.
- Manuelle Gautrand Architecture dressed up the façade of the French headquarters of Barclays bank in what looks like a random series of folded “pages” of marble using the medium of digitally printed glass with ceramic ink.
The façade of the Carmel Academic Center in Haifa, boasts colorful and lively portraits of well-known Israeli culture personalities on its building exterior. CEO Yariv Matzliach sees Dip-Tech as part of Benny Landa’s digital printing revolution. “He did it for the digital press; we’re doing it for glass,” Matzliach tells ISRAEL21c. “Dip-Tech’s niche is to digitalize the world of glass. Our printers are installed and working all over the world. The combination between traditional industry and the end product is a piece of art, and that’s what gives us the joy of being part of the digital revolution.” Israeli-made, globally printed Headquartered in Israel, Dip-Tech has sales offices in the United States, China, and Europe. From 2010 to today, the company has shown a growth rate of 30-50 percent. Matzliach says sales this year are expected to reach some $30 million.
- Artist Alexander Beleschenko won a competition with this multi-colored printed glass design for the Forum, University of Exeter, UK. Dip-Tech digital in-glass printing with ceramic inks was the only solution capable of meeting the challenges posed by so many colors integrated in an external application.
Dip-Tech creates the innovative technology and then sells its system of image processing software, ceramic inks and digital printers to glass fabricators around the world. “We have patented our technology with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to develop patented ceramic inks. We have patented our printers as well. We have very strong IP,” Matzliach claims. “I have a lot of faith that our technology is the leading technology.”
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