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• Telepathy as a communications tool?
• Waxoyl car care and protection launched
• Fourth Exporters' Forum tomorrow
• CIMA seminar
• The Colombo Plan launches guidebook
• Interblocks and Emprise IT, the next stars of Nextventures
• UAL enters Jaffna as business takes off
• Over 10,000 free pension plans from Ceylinco Life
• Chamber urges changes in pension rules
• Cleaner production centre initiated in SL
• Abans to pay Rs 7 lakhs in Ruhunu campus contract FR case
• E-Point, is now 'country partner' for Asian Vendors
• Commercial Bank maintains growth

• Keeping in touch through SIA

• Golden Key to teach SLIM courses in Kurunegala

• Ceylinco Savings Bank celebrates first anniversary

When communicating through mobile phones we waste a few minutes to key in the phone number, get connected to the other party and then pass on the message. But in the future we would just have to think about it and the message would be communicated to the desired person. Wickremesinghe went on to explain that the whole process involves the identification of "our" thoughts through certain sensing devices and then the transfer of our thoughts through the communications network. The messages would be encoded into text and transferred through mobile phones. The end-user too would have such sensors that would detect the text message, convert it into thoughts and directly transfer it to the brain.

"You've only got to think names and then consciously think the message you want to send and finally think what should be sent. The message that originates from your conscious mind is immediately encoded into electronic signals and then transmitted spontaneously into the other brain. You do not have to press any buttons. Instead, you only have to think," Wickremesinghe said.

"This system would require people to think in a particular sequence and the introduction of a Standard Code for Thought Interchange (SCTI) would also be necessary," he said. "It is almost like telepathy. Time is a limiting factor and this would be the best way to save time in the future."

The concept might be put to use in the future when scientists invent devices which would be able to recognise our thoughts, he said. Thought recognition software has been developed in the United States but still has limitations, he said.

This was developed for a person without hands. The software was only able to move the cursor on the computer screen and communication was between the person and the computer only, he explained. "Our concept of thought recognition is quite new to people and it is a prediction of our system of communication in the future."
Wickremesinghe together with his friend Rukshan Fernando, an IT lecturer at the Institute of Banking, have begun writing a book on thought recognition.
They plan to publish the book - 'The futures' future' - in a few months time.

Waxoyl car care and protection launched
Waxoyl Ag, Switzerland, the world's leading company in car care and rust proofing has joined hands with Norton Salco Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, (NSL) in Sri Lanka to provide professional maintenance and comprehensive car care and protection programmes for vehicle owners in Sri Lanka.

Waxoyl Ag, with its presence in over 100 countries around the world, will, through Norton Salco Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, initially provide its customised service to a large number of car dealers and service stations throughout Sri Lanka, a Norton company statement said.

"This much needed car care service is a first of its kind in Sri Lanka and offers bumper-to-bumper and inside-out protection for new and used cars, thus increasing their longevity and re-sale value.

Fourth Exporters' Forum tomorrow
The 4th Exporters' Forum organised by the Export Development Board will be held tomorrow at the third floor of the DHPL building in Colombo. Over 50 issues are to be raised by exporters some of which are high interest rates, introduction of the airport development levy, development of infrastructure facilities, phasing out of garment quotas in 2005, problems encountered in importing silver and the delay in the refund of input rates for exporters by the Inland Revenue Department when value added products are exported using imported material.

Ministers Prof. G.L. Peiris (Enterprise Development) and Ravi Karunanayake (Trade and Commerce) in association with Rohitha Bogollagama (Industries) will jointly chair the meeting.

CIMA seminar
CIMA is organising a seminar on "Measuring ERP success" with the two resource persons being Industrial Financial Systems Vice President - South Asia, Jayantha de Silva and Sanjeev Jayaratnam.

De Silva will explain the real time for "pay back" from ERP and discuss the expectations of an "ERP project, hype and reality, why do ERP fail/delay and how should a company organise an ERP project." CIMA said the seminar would be held on May 14 at its auditorium.

The Colombo Plan launches guidebook
The Colombo Plan has launched a guidebook titled "A Guide to Mobilise Business/Workplaces to prevent Drug Abuse in Asia" for member countries containing tips on a drug-free workplace environment.

The guidebook was produced by the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme (DAP) in conjunction with its initiative Seminar/Workshop on Mobilising Business / Workplaces to prevent drug abuse in Asia held last December which was funded by the Japanese government. "This initiative was implemented in view of the fact that the majority of the drug abusers in Asia are gainfully employed in workplaces and still in their productive years. Moreover, the economic and human costs of drug abuse for businesses are immense in terms of lost productivity and healthcare costs," a Colombo Plan statement said.

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