Yair Zur: Handy Bag
Handy Bag is the world's first dynamic backpack for wheelchair users, allowing full accessibility and maximum comfort. Handy Bag consists of two parts: the carrier and the bag. It fits manual operated wheelchairs, and people with reasonable movement and strength in at least one hand can use it easily. Handy Bag is designed to last for a long period of time and is made from high-quality durable materials. |
Dana Yichye Shwachman:
Easy Stroll Our product is an easy and fast connector between a stroller and a wheelchair. The easy & fast connector enables the wheelchair user (the parent) to move freely and independently with his/her baby stroller. The universal connector will connect to a variety of strollers and wheelchairs, and have a minimal and aesthetic design. We believe that our product can empower parents and caregivers with disabilities! |
Debby Elnathan: TMST
Targeted Modulated Sound Therapy is a novel non-invasive, home-based therapy that has the potential to improve the functioning, and quality of life, of many patients with spasticity. The therapy is based on clinical research, which found a significant improvement in motor function for children with spastic cerebral palsy due to TMST. |
Shachar Elbag:
Accessiblizer Accessiblizer is a web service which makes websites accessible to people with disabilities. Most of the world's websites are not accessible, and the process of making a site accessible is difficult for people without a programming background. Accessiblizer helps small & medium-sized businesses easily make their sites accessible using a semi-automated process. |
Yakir Yaniv & Tami Kalinsky: Eevolo
"Smart Crutches" transforms traditional crutches from an assistive device to a useful therapeutic tool. While addressing various physiological problems we found an entire world of opportunities and innovation. By incorporating sensors, we can monitor many physiological indications, improve users' health and quality of life, and broaden healthcare options. We're backed by a multidisciplinary team that is committed to this initiative's success. |
Moran Ran & Ronit Ran: Innitie
Access4Ability is an Internet based initiative which helps people with disabilities find Assistive Technology (AT) products suitable for their needs. Assistive Technology is an important and often crucial component in the lives of people with disabilities, but often users have incomplete information when searching for a product. Access4Ability offers a unique smart search engine that provides the user with a list of AT recommendations based on his/her specific profile, matching his/her abilities, daily needs and difficulties. Our mission is to help people with disabilities maximize their independence, vocational capabilities and dignity. |
Ziv Navon: Just4me
Just4me is a dating site and social network for people with disabilities and special needs. The platform ensures its users are in a safe and supported environment, yet able to virtually communicate, just like everyone else. The site is targeted at a range of users, including those with a physical disability, cognitive disability, autism, Asperger's syndrome, and other mental health conditions. Just4me was founded by healthcare & treatment professionals who believe that everyone has the right to meet new people, create emotional connections, and find love. |
Zeev Zalvesky & Yevgeny Beiderman: IC Touch
IC Touch is a revolutionizing technology that enables people who are visually impaired to “see”. A camera is installed on the user's spectacles, which processes, encodes and wirelessly transmits a captured image to a special contact lens the user is wearing. This contact lens includes an array of electrodes that converts the visual information into tactile spatial stimulation of the cornea. Our technology can also provide additional visual information to seeing users as the wearable contact lens is transparent and the original vision sense can be used in parallel to the tactile information sent by our device. |
Ohad Doron & Tomer Yanai: Gemon
The process of physical rehabilitation is often boring and monotonous, and accompanied by pain, emotional difficulties and lack of motivation. Using gaming technology, the patient becomes a player and the training movement is translated into action in a computer game. This increases the patient's motivation to use training devices in order to streamline the process of rehabilitation, shorten the timeframe, and even make it fun. It can also allow medical personnel to monitor performance digitally and analyze data. This idea can be implemented in other fields, such as gyms and general training devices. |
Ziv Demter & Omer Zur: Paratrek
Paratrek is an organization specializing in hiking trips and outdoor adventures designed for the physically challenged. At Paratrek, we believe that every one of us has the right to trek, hike, and enjoy an adventure in nature, whether with crutches, a specialized wheelchair, or any other mean of transport. We are here to create and develop treks and outdoor adventures for all those who wish to go but have not been able to do so until now. Where there's a wheel, there's a way! |
Daniel Gross & Meira Yosefi: CogAid
CogAid enables people with acquired cognitive difficulties to return to work and manage their daily work activities and knowledge. We develop cognitive assistive tools that help people with acquired cognitive impairments (resulting from a head injury or a stroke, for example) to go back to work after rehabilitation and remain employed, especially in knowledge-intensive work environments. |
Erez Lugashi: AbiliSense
AbiliSense aims to improve the quality of life of people with hearing disabilities, with a technology that transforms sound into the sense of feeling. This technology enables a person with hearing impairment to receive critical information and events in real time without having to rely on another person. |