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Babysense slips under the crib mattress.

The Blizzard Baby Wrap

XSight for safer runways

A reminder to wash hands after patient contact

The Skysaver helps evacuate skyscrapers in an emergency

Keeping watch on your heart

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You'll see these in cars by next year.

12. Micromedic Technologies specializes in

developing and commercializing novel
and innovative cancer diagnostic kits en-
abling early intervention. The company's
portfolio spans cancer and cancer-related
indications including colorectal cancer,
breast cancer, cervical cancer, bladder
cancer, lung cancer and diagnostic tools
for personalized treatment.

The Biondvax production room

15.Wearable devices are becoming the
rage for doing everything from counting
calories to counting reps at the gym. The
Oxitone watch is a wearable device that
could save your life by measuring blood
oxygen levels and alerting to a potential
heart attack well before it happens. It's
expected on the market within a year.

16. Autotalks — maker of the world's first

13. It started out as a rescue "spider" in 2005,
and today the Israeli-made Skysaver is
deployed to help evacuate skyscrapers in
emergency situations. The device is worn
like a backpack and includes a fire-resis-
tant cord that can rappel rescued people
to safety.

14.The NowForce smartphone app uses GPS
crowd-sourcing technology to rally first-
response teams quickly. NowForce was
developed jointly with United Hatzalah,
a Jerusalem-based nonprofit that trains
thousands of neighborhood volunteers to
respond to emergencies on foot before
ambulances arrive. United Hatzalah
teaches its model of community-powered
call centers throughout the world.

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automotive-grade chipset for series-
production for vehicle-to-vehicle and
vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
— aims to keep drivers and passengers
safer by allowing cars to exchange data.
The technology analyzes data transmit-
ted by the on-board processing units of
nearby vehicles and warns drivers of any
imminent danger. The Israeli company ex-
pects all car manufacturers will integrate
its systems by 2015.

17. BiondVax has completed trials of its uni-

versal flu vaccine first developed at the
Weizmann Institute of Science. Pending
commercial agreements with govern-
ments around the world to continue
development, the vaccine could be on

the market within two
years. Influenza can be
deadly. Between 1976
and 2006, flu-associat-
ed deaths in the United
States alone were
estimated to be in the
thousands, possibly as
many as 49,000. The
1918 flu pandemic
killed 3 to 5 percent of
the world's population
at the time.

others) have been among
those on the scene saving
lives after disasters in-
cluding the 2004 tsunami
in Sri Lanka; Hurricane
Katrina in New Orleans in
2005; the 2007 earth-
quake in Peru; the 2008
cyclone in Myanmar; Phil-
ippines typhoons in 2009
and 2013; the Haiti earth-
quake in 2010; a 2010
hospital fire in Romania;
the Japan earthquake and
18. Wherever disaster
tsunami and the Turkish
strikes in the world —
earthquakes in 1999 and
be it natural or man-
2011; and Hurricane
made — Israel is always An Israeli mobile hospital in Haiti.
Sandy on the U.S. East
Photo by Ambassador Daniel Saada.
among the first to send
Coast in 2012.
medical and search-
Israel also set up
and-rescue teams and
a field hospital on its
supplies, even when it lacks diplomatic
border to treat victims of the Syrian civil
relations with the country in crisis.
war, and continues to provide — with-
Governmental and non-governmental
out charge — lifesaving treatment of
agencies (including Israel Flying Aid,
wounded Syrian civilians at its northern

IsraAID, Israeli Humanitarian Aid-Latet,
Israel Trauma Coalition, ZAKA, Magen
David Adorn, Tevel B'Tzedek and many

hospitals.

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