‘Flytrex Sky’ Personal Delivery Drone Will Ship Goods To Your Location Within Minutes
With the Flytrex Sky, a new Israeli drone hitting the market this December, you can better manage these day-to-day tasks for $549 – less than the price of the latest iPhone. With a 32-minute flight range, the drone can be controlled by both the sender and the receiver through the drone’s mobile app; the sender chooses the desired location and launches the drone, and the recipient becomes the “pilot” when the drone nears its destination to ensure the safest possible landing.
Israelis Rank 2nd in Black Forest Overnight Stays, in 2015
Representatives of the German National Tourist Board (GNTB) arrived in Israel this week to thank local travel agents for the huge increase in Israelis' trips to Germany, and especially to the Black Forest. According to GNTB figures, the first nine months of 2015 saw a 16.5 percent rise in the number of Israelis' overnight stays in Germany, with September recording a 37.5 percent increase from the same period last year.
HUGE BDS Fail: Pro-BDS Group Uses Israeli Platform Wix to Build Website
You know the saying “you can never REALLY boycott Israel?” Well, here’s another proof of why it’s so true: The Students for Justice in Palestine group at the University of Denverthat, who supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, has built a website for its activities using the free Israeli website builder Wix. The successful Tel Aviv-based company provides a platform for free website building and reportedly has over 50 million users as of 2014.
Israelis Develop Wearable Device for Non-stop Fetal Monitoring
Israeli medical experts have developed a wearable mobile monitor to keep a close watch on pregnant women and their fetuses as they go about their everyday lives. The PregSense monitor has sensors woven into an elastic harness to provide data around the clock on the status of the fetus and the mother’s health in the later stages of pregnancy.
A Bluetooth-enabled device attached to the monitor collects and transmits data such as the mother and baby’s heart rates to a smartphone and stores it on a secure cloud-based database accessible only to expectant mothers and their physicians.
Siberia Comes Shopping for Israeli Health Innovation
Officials from nine hospitals and clinics in the Tomsk region of Siberia recently visited Israel to scout out Israeli biomedical innovations they can incorporate into Tomsk’s new Medicine of the Future project for its population of one million. The project will involve 146 manufacturing companies, 72 universities and 94 academic institutions.
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