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Drowning is the leading cause of accidental deaths for children under five – and most of these tragedies happen despite close adult supervision in private swimming pools. Children under the age of five generally do not struggle, shout, or splash before they drown but instead slowly sink to the bottom of the pool without alerting an adult that they need help. To combat these heartbreaking tragedies, Israel-based startup Coral Smart Pool has created an AI-powered lifeguard that scans the pool constantly for potential drowning risks. The virtual lifeguard, Mylo, uses cameras both above and below the water to track movement…
Smart glasses predicted by tech giants such as Google, Meta, and Apple could supplant smartphones in the next decade. Now, these industry titans have more competition in this up-and-coming market opportunity. New technology developed by startup Eyejets projects the screen directly onto the user’s retina – unlike previous designs, such as the Google Glass, that feature the screen’s image in the corner of the lens. According to Eyejets, the company’s EyeVis is the only product combining a virtual retinal display (VRD) system with novel eye-track technology that ensures the laser image projected is always within the center of the field…
‘I can be a stand-up guy again’: Valley veteran regains ability to walk with new technology Richard Neider walks around Touchstone Rehabilitation with a big smile on his face. He has spent the past two months learning how to walk again with the use of the ReWalk Exoskeleton. “During Operation Iraqi Freedom I sustained a spinal cord injury that took my walking away,” Neider said. Life in a wheelchair was a big adjustment for Neider. Over the past 10 years, the Army veteran has learned to adapt – thinking he’d never walk again… until now.
Farmers lose around $30 billion in sales every year due to rotten fruit that never gets harvested. Fruit that gets picked even two weeks late ends up losing 80% of its value. Additionally, due to a shortage of fruit pickers, around 10% of fruits worldwide never get harvested. According to some estimates, if this trend continues there will be five million less workers than necessary by 2050. Farmers are left with the question of how to solve this issue. Tevel Aerobotics Technologies has a solution. The company has developed flying autonomous robots (FARs) that pick ripe fruit off the trees…
Electric vehicles (EV) are surely a greener mode of transportation than gas-guzzling cars, buses, and trucks. But batteries are expensive, recharging takes longer than filing up at the pump, and charging stations are scarce, which can spark fear of getting stranded. Alumnus-founded Electreon has come up with an ingenious solution. Electrify the roads so our EVs can recharge while we are driving. The company, started in 2013 by Oren Ezer M.S. ’06, has been piloting its smart road technology in Israel and Europe. Now, they are rolling out in Detroit — the heart of the U.S.’s automotive industry. “As transportation…
Used in many aspects of everyday life, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) control systems such as transportation services, factories, power stations, smart buildings, traffic lights, and more. Since such systems control automatic responses to changing environmental stimuli within frequently encountered structures, preventing them from being hacked into by those with nefarious intentions is of the utmost importance. Siemens, a multinational industrial manufacturer, is known across the industry to have the top security measures in place for their controller firmware systems. But a team of researchers from the Technion’s Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science recently found a way to…
Astrophysicist Prof. Ehud Behar is intent on unearthing the mysteries of extragalactic events. Stellar explosions. The merging of neutron stars. Black holes. Outer space hosts jaw-dropping phenomena. But too often, we’re late to the viewing party. These spectacular occurrences emit flashes of light, sometimes including prompt, intense gamma-ray bursts, alerting physicists to their presence. Yet by the time we record them here on Earth, we lose the early time windows to study the events. Professor Ehud Behar and his team are looking to fix this time lag with their Gamma-Ray Burst Localizing Instrument (GALI). This shoebox-sized device can identify the…
The Journey of One Technion Alum The 1983 Cold War science fiction techno-thriller WarGames was a box-office hit that garnered three Academy Award nominations. The film about a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a Pentagon supercomputer also made its mark on then 12-year-old Guy Merin. “I went straight from the theater to K-Mart and bought my first computer,” he recalled. “I started my journey there.” It’s a journey that took him from earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the Technion to Microsoft, where he played a key role in the recent release of Surface Duo 2 — the…
Have you filled a prescription for antibiotics recently? Used a virtual fitting room to try on clothes at home? Admired a new building going up in your community? You have computer science to thank — yes, even for that virtual fitting room! Computer science has improved almost every aspect of our modern lives, even for the Luddites among us. Researchers at the Technion are taking it one step further, pushing the boundaries of computer science to deliver useful, innovative solutions to complex problems plaguing our society. Minimizing Antibiotic Resistance … with Computers The use of antibiotics, while essential to curing…
What the Next 100 Years Will Look Like Almost 100 years ago, 17 students began studying at the Technikum, a new university on the slopes of Mount Carmel. The first courses at what we now know as the Technion marked a defining moment for the Jewish settlement in Palestine — The Technikum was Palestine’s first academic institution and the Middle East’s first technological-scientific university. Back then, the Technion offered just two tracks of study: civil engineering and architecture. Today, about 14,000 students can choose from more than 50 undergraduate and 83 graduate programs clustered into 18 academic faculties. The Technion…
In most accidents involving a vehicle and a two-wheeler, the latter almost always ends up in worse shape – but a new device strives to help decrease the frequency of these accidents. Israel-based tech company Autotalks has developed a handlebar device that warns cyclists and scooter riders of the presence of another vehicle close to them. Led by Founder, CTO, and Technion alumnus Onn Haran, Autotalks is determined to make the road a safer place for cyclists, motorists, and scooter riders alike. The new device, called the ZooZ 2, warns cyclists and scooter riders of vehicles approaching their blind spots…
Technion Inaugurates Center for Creative and Engineering Design The Technion recently inaugurated the Mehoudar Center for Inventors, a center for creative and engineering design. The center will become a home for multidisciplinary collaboration, providing faculty, students, and inventors with the resources and technical assistance to build and test engineering prototypes. The center is named in honor of Technion graduate Raphael (Rafi) Mehoudar, a 1966 graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering who received an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater in 2014. At the age of 20, while still at the Technion, he developed the dual flush toilet mechanism, currently…