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Surfin’ Wave Energy, Messaging from the Great Beyond and More – This Week from the Startup Nation

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September 28, 2015

New Tech Allows Sending Messages from the Great Beyond

We’ve seen something very similar last year on “Black Mirror,” and now communicating with departed loved ones takes one more step towards reality.

A new Israeli app will give everyone an opportunity to communicate with loved ones from the great beyond. With SafeBeyond, users can record messages – audio and video – and have them played back to their children, spouses, or anyone else at anytime in the future.

“>Read more here. 

Visiting Israel Made Easier for New Yorkers

Delta Airlines will operate another four weekly flights between Tel Aviv and New York, the company announced. The extra flights will begin in summer 2016, bringing Delta's total number of weekly flights on this route to 11. The move follows American Airlines' decision to stop flying to Israel from the beginning of January next year, thereby creating demand for extra flights to North America.

“>Read more here. 

First Major Wind Farm in 30 Years to Be Built in Israel

For the first time in decades, Israeli is building wind turbines which will create electricity by harnessing the power of the wind. Afcon Holdings, a part of the Shlomo Group, has started construction in recent days on two wind farms, which will house 25 wind turbines each in Ramat Sirin and Ma'ale Gilboa in northern Israel.

The turbines can produce 21 megawatts of electricity at any given moment, and are set to become active next year. Harnessing the wind's energy to produce electricity is thought of as the most rapidly developing field within the renewable energy sector.

“>Read more here. 

Waves Become a More Reliable Energy Source

The wind may not blow and the sun may not shine, but waves are pretty constant. That, according to some scientists, makes wave power a better and more reliable source of renewable energy than solar or wind. And few companies have embraced the idea of mass-producing energy using wave power than Israel’s Eco Wave Power (EWP).

“>Read more here. 

One Less Thing To Worry About When Expecting A Baby

Every pregnant mother worries whether her baby will be healthy. But invasive tests for genetic abnormalities — chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis – present a small risk of miscarriage. In a groundbreaking development, genetics experts at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center have devised a patent-pending process to screen a fetus for genetic diseases using a blood sample from the mother. A paper just published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation describes how it works.

“>Read more here. 

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