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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 432

technology for the disabled

Richard Hsu, Marketing VP, Karma Medical Devices, left to right; Ken Chen, Product Trainer, Karma Medical Devices; Kenny Chen, CEO, Karma Medical Devices; Efrat Shenhod-Malihi, Founder & CEO, ReSymmetry; Eitan Yanuv, Business Development, ReSymmetry; Jill Ho, Director, Innovation to Industry (i2i) (Courtesy)
December 16, 2020, 1:22 pm
Israeli startup, Taiwan firm to make ‘smart chair’ for people with disabilities
ReSymmetry and Taiwanese manufacturing firm Karma Medical Devices plan to produce a robotic seating system that uses AI to match chair’s seating position to its user
By Jake Epstein
Israel is a world leader in the field of assistive technology, which helps disabled people cope with their environment. (Iacopo Luzi/Times of Israel)
February 8, 2017, 1:14 pm
Tackling disability: The impact of assistive technology in Israel
Startup nation is a global leader in technologies that could benefit people with disabilities worldwide
By Iacopo Luzi
The Israeli startup Paratrek created an augmented wheelchair that allows people with paraplegia to go on hikes as a result of a Tikkun Olam Makers makethon. (Courtesy of Paratrek)
April 13, 2016, 9:47 pm
Google gives $700K to Israeli disabilities technology initiative
Tikkun Olam Makers holds innovation ‘makethons’ where engineers invent products for the disabled
By JTA
Hackers at a Tikkun Olam Makers makeathon at Alyn Hospital in Jerusalem, March 15, 2016 (Courtesy)
March 20, 2016, 5:03 pm
Alyn hospital hackers seek to remake the world for disabled
Israel’s biggest rehabilitative hospital for kids kicks off its new ‘maker lab’ project with a hackathon to develop new tech to help handicapped kids
By David Shamah
Daniel Goldstein is counsel to the National Federation of the Blind. (Courtesy of Brown, Goldstein & Levy/via JTA)
March 5, 2016, 11:31 am
Disabilities lawyer pioneers legislation for digital accessibility
Daniel Goldstein, counsel for the National Federation of the Blind, tackles new cases while mentoring the next generation
By Erica Brody
Nino Ransenberg on an Atto Mobility Scooter (Courtesy)
January 31, 2016, 8:04 pm
Israeli polio victim builds a scooter for the disabled
The Moving Life Atto Freedom Scooter folds up, is light and easy to move around with — and it looks cool, says its creator
By David Shamah
The Easystroll wheelchair allows disabled individuals to take their kids wherever they go (Courtesy)
December 1, 2015, 7:44 pm
Israel tech helps the deaf ‘hear’ and the blind ‘see’
Israeli accelerator program A3i is leading the way in ‘ability’ technology, improving the lives of millions with disabilities
By David Shamah
'I am with you' in Israeli Sign Language (Image from the Signs in Crisis smartphone app)
August 10, 2015, 12:29 am
When a siren can never be loud enough
For Israel’s hearing impaired, first-responders are learning how to say ’emergency’ without making a sound
By Ramona Tausz
Doron Somer (left) and his son Itamar (Courtesy)
July 13, 2015, 8:08 pm
Start-up gives autistic kids — and their parents — a little more freedom
AngelSense’s tracking and information system lets parents keep tabs on their children — making one of the world’s toughest jobs a little easier
By David Shamah
Haifa University President Amos Shapira (left) presents honorary Ph.D degrees to Shira and Jay Ruderman (center, second right) (Gil Hadani)
June 17, 2015, 7:15 pm
For business success, include the disabled, urge US philanthropists
From the workplace to the Jewish community center, inclusion has become an important value among young people, according to Jay and Shira Ruderman
By David Shamah
A young TOM participant shows off his Raptor Hand (Photo credit: Courtesy)
March 25, 2015, 5:55 pm
Makers use 3D printers to create a kinder, gentler future
It doesn’t take a lot of money to develop technology for good, a group of tech hackers proved in Tel Aviv
By David Shamah
A young paralyzed boy uses the Sesame Enable phone (Courtesy)
February 8, 2015, 5:26 pm
Israeli tech sweeps Verizon contest with $1.5 million in prizes
Three start-ups from Israel – representing a quarter of all participants – named Powerful Answer contest winners
By David Shamah
Wenqing Zhu and Sharon Yeheskel-Oron at the ceremony in Beijing inaugurating cooperation between Suzhou Yuanmeng Accessibility Technology Co. and Beit Issie Shapiro, January 29, 2015 (Photo credit: Courtesy)
February 2, 2015, 7:22 pm
In new Sino-Israeli venture, nonprofit offers help for the disabled
Chinese manufacturer signs deal to build rehab centers for the autistic inspired by Ra’anana-based model
By David Shamah
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