3 promising Israeli Startups to look for on MS ThinkNext 2010
Think Next, The annual event of Microsoft’s Research and Development Center in Israel, will be held on April 14th, with keynote by Craig Mundie – Microsoft’s Chief research & strategy officer. We reviewed some of the promising Israeli startups to show on ThinkNext’s DemoFest – A technology fair including dozens of demonstrations of innovations in technology. Here are some promising companies to watch.
Profiler 1
Profiler1’s product promises to discover 
human personality in seconds over the mobile and the web by answering questions like: Will he pay for the dinner? Is she faithful? Is it a way to “unleash your friends’ secrets in seconds” or just another empty promise. We would happy to test the service and find out. The service available on leading social networks, dating platforms, and other websites.
Read more on Profiler1 in TheWadi’s company index
Eyesight
eyeSight’s Touch Free technology allows people to interact with 
mobile phones and portable devices by simple hand gestures. eyeSight’s software-based gesture detection technology employs advanced image processing and machine vision algorithms. The technology tracks users’ hand motions in front of a camera, converting them into commands that are sent to the relevant application. eyeSight will present demos of Hand Gesture controlled: MP3 player, web browsing, photo gallery, Navigation system, games and more.
Read more on Eyesight in TheWadi’s company index.
My6sense
My6Sense tries to solve one of the side-effects of the
information era – the growing influx of information which is a mix of relevant signals and unnecessary noise. A simple test will find that 24 hours a day aren’t enough to digest all this information. With info piling up, services like My6Sense become essential.
My6Sense developed a technology named Digital Intuition – a mechanism that ranks content according to the relevancy for the user. This is based on all the sources of information that the user defines. During the installation process, you’ll be asked to define your RSS readers and social network streams: Facebook, Twitter and others.
Then, instead of flooding you with hundreds of headlines, you’ll only get the updates that are of interest to you. Lately My6Sense launched an API for developers, aiming to bring My6Sense to new customers via new applications that will be developed on its technology
Read TheWadi’s review on My6Sense.
Read more on My6Sense in TheWadi’s company index.
Some more companies to look for on ThinkNext:
Mychic
MyChic’s technology provides manufacturers an option to present their products in an Augmented Reality method, while enabling on-the-fly customization capability and unique exposure in the market. Consumers may use MyChic service to experience how products will virtually look at their target location and customize them.
On ThinkNext MyChic will be demonstrating its solution for the eyeglass industry. Choosing an eyeglass frame on-line becomes easy and reliable when one can virtually see how different frames fit. The demo will present an automatic on-line fitting and tracking of various eyeglass frames, with “on-the-fly” customization options.
Read more on Mychic in TheWadi’s company index.
Cloudshare
CloudShare’s SaaS cloud platform offers customers a way to share copies of complex IT environments online, so users can collaborate with other people – for demos, proofs-of-concept (POC), training, or enterprise applications – without wasting time copying software or going on site.
Read more on Cloudshare in TheWadi’s company index
Mecanto
MeCanto enables seamless synchronization, management, and access to a user’s personal music collection from everywhere, using cloud computing, desktop, internet, and mobile technologies, supporting Symbian, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, and others, and integrated with social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and others.
Read more on Mecanto in TheWadi’s company index
Scentcom
Scentcom enables the ultimate user experience through Dynamic Scent. Digital Scent technology introduces a powerful new dimension to a wide variety of markets and applications including: video games, mobile phones, home theater, toys, cars, and homeland security simulators. Scentcom presents miniaturized Digital Scent Technology, enhancing the user experience through scent. =
Read more on Scentcom in TheWadi’s company index
Tunewiki
TuneWiki is a neat social music player, for mobile devices, that shows subtitled lyrics while the user listens to music, watches videos, or streams SHOUTcast™ radio. Translated into 40+ languages, TuneWiki makes music social – with wiki-features, and geographical music maps and charts.
Read more on TuneWiki in TheWadi’s company index
Camero
Camero is a pioneer in the development and design of RF imaging systems for Sense Through The Wall (STTW) applications. Camero’s suite of Xaver systems provide unprecedented, real-time situational awareness by imaging, locating and detecting people behind solid walls or barriers. Camero’s STTW technologies are designed specifically to complete the tactical operators’ situational awareness in urban settings, enabling rapid and informed decision-making in life threatening situations.
Read more on Camero in TheWadi’s company index.
Aminon
AMIMON is a fables semiconductor company pioneering wireless uncompressed high-definition video for universal connectivity among all video devices. Its standard, Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) connect HDTVs wirelessly to video sources such as Notebook, Mobile Phone, Set-top box and Blue-ray at a quality equivalent to HDMI cable. In the event AMIMON will demonstrate uncompressed wireless high definition (HD) connectivity between Smart-Phone and HDTV.
Read more on Amimon in TheWadi’s company index.
Ringbow
Ringbow offers a new concept in Human-Computer Interaction which enhances the way we interact with the most advanced user interfaces, such as touch screens and visual recognition. Ringbow provides a set of innovative means for controlling interfaces easily and much more effectively than ever before. Ringbow will reveal its concept on ThinkNext, allowing the user to interact with his touch screen using a ring.
Read more on Ringbow in TheWadi’s company index.
Shidonni
Shidonni is a web-based edutainment virtual world for children aged 5-12. Shidonni uniquely promotes creativity by empowering children to draw pets, care for, play with, and share them with friends in a safe social network. Shidonni is a Silverlight application.
Read more on Shidonni in TheWadi’s company index.
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2010-04-06
18:27:35
3 promising Israeli Startups to look for on MS ThinkNext | by @galm http://bit.ly/aHNOci #israel #thewadi #miscrosoft @MicrosoftRnDiL
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2010-04-07
08:34:05
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2010-04-07
15:41:19
Gal, thank you for the outstanding mention! Superb :-) I hope you'll be attending the event-looking forward to seeing you there.
All the best,
Ilana
my6sense Marketing
@osherlana
@my6sense
2010-04-10
14:06:22
3 promising Israeli Startups to look for on MS ThinkNext 2010 http://bit.ly/aqCimB #isratech
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2010-04-12
14:45:14
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2010-04-12
15:20:09
After reading @thewadi ’s post on it, just signed up for MS ThinkNext 2010 – http://bit.ly/apU9Or
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2010-04-12
21:26:36
[...] of the companies we’ve covered in our post about ThinkNext raised some doubts. Profiler1 offers an automated personality diagnosis according to a [...]
2010-04-16
20:29:59
[...] follow eComm for more developments in this field. As seen also in ThinkNext, there’s a growing number of Israeli startups in the mobile scene. News from the eComm [...]
2010-09-16
21:59:05
[...] Mobile Technologies, which we have covered here on TheWadi before, develop hand gesture interface solutions. Asides from the Moove player, the company offers several [...]
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