Israel’s OrCam Teams With Soccer Star Lionel Messi To Help The Blind
Lionel Messi OrCam Website Soccer Star Lionel Messi has signed on with Israel’s OrCam Technologies. OrCam announced that the FC Barcelona star would be joining its “OrCam Dream Team” and promote its MyEye More...
Israeli-Swedish scientists have developed microscopic retina to restore blind people’s sight
Scientists at Tel Aviv University and Linköping University in Sweden have developed a tiny photoactive film that converts light impulses into electrical signals. These signals stimulate neurons (nerve cells) More...
A $1 Billion Valuation for Israeli Mobileye Founders’ New Unicorn Orcam
Israeli intrepenours, Prof. Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram, has completed raising of $30.4 million capital for their new unicorn company Orcam at a value of $1 billion before money. Shashua and Aviram had agreed More...
Israeli Developed Devices Can Help Blind People See
In Prof. Amir Amedi’s world-renowned Lab for Brain and Multisensory Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, people with vision impairment can “see” their environment with the aid of sensory More...
Scientists map brains of the blind to solve mysteries of human brain specialization
New research suggests unexpected brain connectivity can lead to fast brain specialization, allowing humans to adapt to the rapid technological and cultural innovation of our generation Studying More...
Billionaire Alfred Mann Dedicated to Mankind
Alfred Mann, physicist, inventor and founder of biotech company Mannkind has one focus–Mankind. At the age of 88, Mann still works 70 hour weeks, and is on a quest of a lifetime to eradicate as More...
Project RAY Smartphone System For The Visually Impaired
– – According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are over 39 million blind people in the world. If you take into account people who are considered visually impaired, that number More...