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Little bit of Israel in our daily life

One of the earliest and widely used inventions of Israel is drip irrigation, which produces more crop will a fraction of the water used for irrigation.

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The daily life of an average urbanite has changed drastically because of the gadgets and technologies developed in Israel. Constant threats from the neighbourhood and institute's focus on Research and Development have resulted in Israel's contribution to the world disproportionately larger than its share in geographical area or population of the world.

Things such as mobile phones, USB drives, drip irrigation technology, cameras used in endoscopy, specialised pills to monitor the body from inside, tools that enable handicapped to walk as well as visually-impaired to recognize and touch objects in front of them are all developed in Israel. Today, a person will be handicapped without the smartphone. However, the previous avatar, the candybar mobile phone was first developed by Motorola's team in Isreal in 1973. Today, India alone is home to over one billion mobile phones in the world.

One of the earliest and widely used inventions of Israel is drip irrigation, which produces more crop will a fraction of the water used for irrigation. Harry Yuklea, a faculty of Technion, Israel's oldest university had during his earlier visit said that it through an accidental leakage in a pipeline that the idea of drip irrigation germinated and came to reality. Even Prime Miniter Narendra Modi boasted of Gujarat's achievements in drip irrigation during the recent campaign for Gujarat Legislative Assembly.

Israel is also credited with inventing USB Flash Drives, which replaced floppy discs and Cds to store data. World's smallest video camera of about 0.99 mm has been developed by Israeli company Medigus. It is widely used in endoscopy. Rewalk, a tool enables handicapped to walk is also developed in Israel. Recently, Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry had organised a demonstration of a product by Israeli company Orcam, which is based on Artificial Intelligence. Combining video recording with a camera and audio inputs, it helps visually impaired recognize objects in front of them.

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