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Yoram Valent from Bar Ilan University in Israel won the GE Smart Grid Award for GridON, a spin-out commercialising Valent's innovative Fault Current Limiter (FCL) which improves control of fault currents on electricity grids. GridON's technology is more effective than existing solutions and less costly. Short circuits are becoming more frequent as electricity networks expand to meet increasing energy demand and carry renewable sources of energy that flow intermittently. The judges noted that GridON's technology is important because when electricity grids operate close to capacity, intermittent flows can shut down the entire system. GE's participation in ACES 2011 is part of a $200 million investment programme to invest in new 'smart grid' technologies, the GE 'ecomagination' challenge.
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This is the first part of a roundtable discussion on Technology and Innovation that was held at the AIPAC policy conference in 2011. This is an annual event and the panel speaks about the latest Israeli innovations. More than 10,000 people attended the conference —the largest in AIPAC's history.
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Taiwan's HTC's take on tablets is one of the most interesting at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The little seven-inch aluminum unibody package comes with a pressure-sensitive stylus. This might be enough to set the Flyer apart in the increasingly crowded Android tablet world. The Israeli company N-trig is involved in the programming and technology of the Flyer. The screen gives a rather respectable 1024 x 600 resolution, and has the usual multi-touch panel. These are still handmade prototypes, so the final version is likely to be lighter and thinner. The Flyer will launch in the second half of the year, and will ship with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. N-trig are the providers of the DuoSenses solution, a dual mode interface powered by a single digitizer that uses pens and projected capacitive milt-touch to create onscreen digital input for mobile computers and other digital products.
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“Our company has developed a new product called Video Surround,” explained SimplyLive’s CEO and Managing Director Robby Leon. “Our product enables the viewers to actually move 360 degrees and watch a video online, whether it’s on demand or live.” The camera, explained Leon, is constantly filming the object and the viewer can choose to view the object from any angle whenever he wants. “Different viewers can choose different angles simultaneously so they are basically not controlling the camera,” said Leon. It should be noted that the invention is completely Israeli. “We are integrating U.S. technology; however, all the development for the integration of the player and of additional features are developed here in Israel,” emphasized Leon.
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“Our company has developed a new product called Video Surround,” explained SimplyLive’s CEO and Managing Director Robby Leon. “Our product enables the viewers to actually move 360 degrees and watch a video online, whether it’s on demand or live.” The camera, explained Leon, is constantly filming the object and the viewer can choose to view the object from any angle whenever he wants. “Different viewers can choose different angles simultaneously so they are basically not controlling the camera,” said Leon. It should be noted that the invention is completely Israeli. “We are integrating U.S. technology; however, all the development for the integration of the player and of additional features are developed here in Israel,” emphasized Leon.
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Part of the reawakened 3D revolution, spurred on by the box office hit film Avatar, is taking place in Israel. Israel start-up 3DTV, located in Ra'anana north of Tel Aviv, is developing a new 3D technology. You won't need to wear those funny glasses anymore. Owner and CEO, David Ohayon explains that every scene has to be shot with two cameras, one from the perspective of each eye. 3D TV adds a layer of optics on top of the existing layer on a commercial LCD TV. This layering redirects the pixels in nine different directions. Content for 3D has to be created in a special way, and the start-up creates its own high quality content, in addition to providing the software to convert any existing video into 3D content. For now, 3D TV is showing its content at exhibitions, business centers and airports. Several commercials made by the company are on display at the Moscow Airport and the software is currently on display at the Israel Pavilion at China's Shanghai Expo.
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