Category - Gadgets

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ගනිඳු නානායක්කාර යනු නව නිර්මාණ ශිල්පියෙකු සහ මෘදුකාංග ඉංජිනේරුවරයෙකි. SLIIT ආයතනයේ ඉගෙනුම ලබා ඇති මහු ආදි ආනන්දීයයෙකු ද වේ. මෙම වසරේ Verizon ආයතනය මගින් පැවැත්වූ Powerful Answers තරඟයේ ප්‍රවාහන අංශයේ දෙවන ස්ථානය ලබාගැනීමට ගනිඳුගේ iHelmet නිර්මාණයට හැකිවූ අතර, ඔහුට හිමිවූ ජයග්‍රාහී ත්‍යාග මුදල ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 500,000ක් විය.

Powerful Answers යනු Verizon ආයතනය විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලබන තරඟාවලියකි. මෙය ප්‍රධාන අංශ තුනක් (Transportation, Emergency Response සහ Internet of Things) යටතේ පැවැත්වෙන අතර එක් අංශයකින් ජයග්‍රාහකයින් 4 දෙනෙක් තෝරාගනු ලැබේ. ප්‍රථමයාට ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 1,000,000ක් ද, දෙවැනියාට ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 500,000ක් ද, ඉතිරි දෙදෙනාට ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 250,000 බැගින් ද ත්‍යාග මුදල් හිමිවේ. මෙවර මෙම තරඟය සඳහා 1,400කට අධික තරඟකරුවන් සහභාගී වූ අතර අවසන් සම්මාන ප්‍රදානය පසුගිය දෙසැම්බර් 9 වන දා සැන් ෆ්‍රැන්සිස්කෝ නුවරදී පැවැත්වුණි.

iHelmet (intelligentHelmet) සතුව විශේෂාංග ගණනාවක් ඇත. මෙම විශේෂිත හිස්වැස්ම පාලනය කිරීමට ගනිඳු ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ Android අයදුමකි. හිස්වැස්මේ ඇති උපාංගය නිරතුරුව සංවේදනය කරගන්නා දත්ත ජංගම දුරකථනයට සම්ප්‍රේෂණය වන්නේ බ්ලූටූත් සංඥා ඇසුරෙනි. ඊට අමතරව හුරුබුහුටි දුරස්ථ-පාලකයක් ද මේ සමග ලැබෙන අතර ස්මාට්ෆෝන් භාවිතය නුපුරුදු අයට එය පහසුවක් වනු ඇත. iPhone පරිශීලකයින් හට ද iHelmet භාවිත කිරීමේ පහසුකම නුදුරු දිනෙකම හඳුන්වාදෙනු ඇතැයි අපි උදක්ම අපේක්‍ෂා කරමු.

සේයාරුව: http://recode.net

[mks_pullquote align=”right” width=”300″ size=”20″ bg_color=”#000000″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]මේ උපකරණය හා Android අයදුම සමඟ හිස්වැස්මක මිල $115ක් පමණ වන අතර උපකරණය හා Android අයදුම පමණක් $75ක මුදලකට අලෙවි කිරීමට නියමිතයි.[/mks_pullquote]යතුරුපැදි අනතුරු වලින් නිමක් නැති රටක් වන අපට මෙය ඉතාමත් ප්‍රයෝජනවත් උපාංගයක් වනු ඇත. මෙවන් නව නිර්මාණ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව කොතෙකුත් බිහිවුවද අපගේ අවාසනාවට මෙන් එයින් වෙළඳපලට එක්වන්නේ ඉතාම අතළොස්සකි. මෙයට විවිධ හේතු තිබුණද, රජය සහ මහජනයා මෙම නිමැවුම් වෙත යොමන අඩු අවධානය එයට ප්‍රධාන හේතුවකි. TechWire අපගේ පැතුම කිසියම් අනුග්‍රාහක භවතෙකුගේ මැදිහත්වීමකින් මෙම ප්‍රයෝජනවත් හිස්වැස්ම, සාමාන්‍ය ජනයාට ආර්ථිකමයව පහසුදායක අයුරකින්, වෙළඳ භාණ්ඩයක් ලෙස ඉක්මණින්ම අප අතරට පැමිණේවා කියා ය.

Powerful Answers Awards 2015 තරඟයේ ජයග්‍රාහකයන් පහත පරිදිය.

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$1,000,000 – Bounce Imaging

$500,000 – EmergenSee®

$250,000 – Disaster Mesh, Lifeguard Drone
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$1,000,000 – Zizmos Technology

$500,000 – CityTaps

$250,000 – Owlet, Smart Barn
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$1,000,000 – Pogo

$500,000 – iHelmet

$250,000 – i4drive, Swiftmile
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Wi-Fi ට වඩා 100 ගුණයක් වේගවත් Li-Fi තාක්‍ෂණය

December 6, 2015

Chevindu Wickramathilaka

Communication, Gadgets, Science

1 min read

අපගේ මේ සූදානම Li-Fi හට සත්‍ය ලෙසම අපගේ අන්තර්ජාල වේගය අධිබලගැන්වීමට අවශ්‍ය කරුණු කාරණා තිබේදැයි සොයා බැලීමටයි. ඊට ප්‍රථමයෙන් Li-Fi පිළිබඳ නොදන්නා අය සඳහා ඒ ගැන සුළු හැඳින්වීමක් කරමු.

Li-Fi යනු Light Fidelity යන පෙළ සඳහා වන කෙටි යෙදුමකි. Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) තාක්‍ෂණයේදී භාවිතා වන තරංග වර්ගයට ගුවන් විදුලි සහ ක්‍ෂුද්‍ර යන තරංග වර්ග දෙක අතර සංඛ්‍යාතයක් ඇත. එසේ භාවිතයට හේතුව ද ගුවන් විදුලි සහ ක්‍ෂුද්‍ර තරංග වලින් සිදුවිය හැකි බලපෑමයි. කෙසේ වුවද මෙම Li-Fi තාක්‍ෂණයේදී භාවිතා වන තරංග වර්ගය නම් සරලවම දෘෂ්‍ය ආලෝකයයි. දෘෂ්‍ය තරංග පරාසය තෝරාගැනීමට, ගුවන්විදුලි තරංග පරාසයේ ඇති තදබදය ද හේතුවක් වූවා විය හැක. එහෙත් Li-Fi තාක්‍ෂණයේ ප්‍රබලම වාසිය එහි සුපිරි වේගයයි. නවතම සොයාගැනීම් වලට අනුව පෙනීගොස් ඇත්තේ මෙම Li-Fi හට Wi-Fi ව ද ප්‍රතිස්ථාපනයට තරම් බලයක් ඇති බවයි. මේ සියල්ල ඇරමුනේ Vemenni නම් සමාගමක් Li-Fi තාක්‍ෂණයෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන කුඩා පරිමාණයේ විදුලි බල්බයක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමත් සමගයි. Read More

Change the way you see the world with Microsoft HoloLens

February 7, 2015

Kalpa Gunarathna

3 min read

Never before, technology is pouring out to our day to day lives constantly with a fascinating rate. With this technology revolution lot of science fictions have already become science facts. As seen as iron man movies, star wars series one more science fiction is about to be a fact. Now with HoloLens, Microsoft is ready to change the way you see the world with the help of hologram technology.

Wearable technology in terms of eye wear is becoming quite a thing with Google Glasses and Oculus Rift making a lot of buzz in the world. Microsoft entered the arena with their own potential product, the Microsoft HoloLens. In Google Glass you see a screen in front of you. In Oculus Rift, you are immersed into a virtual reality setting. HoloLens differs from existing virtual reality technologies because in existing virtual reality technologies, the environment users has to engage is completely computer generated and for better experience for virtual reality it is better users do not engage in physical collisions. This is where HoloLens becomes game changing. It takes a different perspective by a more integrated augmented reality approaches. Meaning, with HoloLens it will project interactive objects on to the world around you and you can interact with them while you are jogging, working or even eating.

As shown in the video above, this would be an amazing tool for product design, 3D graphics, gaming, entertainment and communication. In the recent Microsoft event, they provided a demo for people to explore Mars, which makes this ideal for us to experience different parts of the world and beyond which would never get a chance to visit.

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According to Microsoft, HoloLens is the first holographic computer running on Windows 10 and it has no attachments to any physical devices. Which means no wires, no connection to a pc is needed. Just wear HoloLens and enjoy the experience. HoloLens is equipped with advanced sensors to understand the beautiful world around you and it even has a Holographic Processing Unit(HPU) to interpret that amazing world to you. The device is still some time away from being available as a commercial product and hopefully it will be available in 2016. If it would be anything close to the demo video, it would definitely be worth the wait.

You can learn more information on HoloLens here.

Image credits : Microsoft.com

Are you a mobile phone enthusiast?

January 26, 2015

2 min read

Are you a fan of all the newly arriving mobile phones? Are you interested in cutting edge mobile trends? Does knowing about new mobile phones excite you? Then this article is surely for you.

Imagine you want to search the spec of the newest member of Lumia series or Samsung new mobile or new iPhone. Like all the other phone enthusiasts in the world your first choice would be gsmareana. Sure, this site is a great place to explore your phone craze. But when you want to get the local market price of that phone, gsmarena can’t offer you much help with that. Well that is why ideambeam.com can be the best news that a Sri Lankan phone enthusiasts can hear.

So what’s up with ideabeam.com? Ideabeam can offer you the newest phone models that are available in Sri Lanka along with their local market prices. Its filled with leading mobile brands like Apple,BlackBerry,E-tel,Google,HTC,Huawei,LG,Nokia,Samsung,Sony,Microsoft that are widely available in the world market. Not only that, Ideabeam can show you the leading mobile phone stores in Sri Lanka and their respective products as well. And when you want to find a mobile phones price it can show you a comparative analysis of the shops where you can buy it along with the price comparison which is surely a very handy tool for you. Not only for mobile phones, these rich features are also available for tablets also. Pretty cool right?

What makes Ideabeam more cooler is that it’s not just a mobile phone. If you want to buy a vehicle you can even compare vehicle leasing rates in Sri Lanka via Ideabeam and make the right choice because these comparisons are pretty much descriptive. If you want to checkout housing loans or try out a pension scheme, Ideabeam can guide you to the right path. It doesn’t stop here. You can also fine new employment opportunities available via jobs.ideabeam.com which has wide variety of jobs listed. And books.ideabeam.com is also a good place to find newly arrived books with the shops they are sold and prices without setting foot away from your home.

Ideabeam is a place where you should definitely checkout.

Samsung leads global phone sales

December 27, 2014

Gadgets, Infographic

2 min read

Samsung continues to be the leading global phone seller according to the worldwide global phone sales stats by Gartner. Samsung contributed 94 million of the phone sales from the 400+ million smartphone sales in the last quarter. Nokia is somehow holding on to 2nd place while, Apple is not far behind from them. The reason for Samsung having such a large sale over the others is that they have a big stake in the smartphone market as well as the lower end phones. Nokia who are surviving with their feature and lower end phones will soon be overtaken by Apple. Even though Samsung is a clear leader, they will be worried that their YoY sales are dropping while, their major competitor Apple’s sales has grown significantly from last year. (Below infographic via statista.com)

Global-Phone-sales-Q3-2014

If you just consider smartphone sales, Nokia is (for obvious reasons) not be seen. Samsung and Apple are right up there, while Xiaomi is making significant strides in 3rd place. Something to note is that there is a lot of ‘other’ vendors making a large percentage of the sales, meaning the long tail is quite significant. This can be an opportunity for big players to further extend their dominance, or a chance for a smaller player to rise up among the giants. (Below image via idc.com)

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‘RIYADISI’— Intelligent driver monitoring system

November 15, 2014

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Road accidents cause large number of deaths, injuries and disabilities of people around the world and it has been found that 10%-20% of fatal road accidents are due to driver’s negligence. Further from the researches it has been identified that main causes for this inattention are drowsiness and distraction.

The aim of RIYADISI is to assist drivers to maintain their attention throughout the journey by monitoring and alerting them throughout the journey. RIYADISI is a real time, automated and noninvasive (not involving the introduction of instruments into the body) system which uses computer vision and machine learning techniques to detect driver drowsiness and distraction and alerts the driver. The main distinguishing feature of RIYADISI when compared with other related products in the market that it does not have any instruments attached to the body of the driver.

The monitoring video camera (Height-2 cm X Width-5 cm approx.) is placed on the dashboard near steering wheel which uploads a live video stream of the driver to a central server. The video stream is analyzed from the central server software and it identifies the status of the driver, whether he is sleepy or not concentrating on driving.

RIYADISI system uses decreased eye blinking rate, yawning and nodding off to detect drowsiness whereas it uses eye-gaze movement and head movements to detect distraction. If the central server detects that the driver is drowsy or distracted, the system has the capability to alert the driver on the same. Furthermore the video camera used here is an Infra-Red (IR) camera which facilitates to use the system in the night as well.

The next phase of this invention is to integrate the whole system into a mobile app where the mobile phone will be able to alert the driver by continuously monitoring him.

RIYADISI is an invention by a team of final year undergraduates of Department of Computer Science and Engineering of University of Moratuwa under the guidance of Dr. Chathura Perera. Team members are Dileepa Fernando, Sandareka Wickramanayake, Sadari jayawardena and Sanka Darshana.

While congratulating the team of inventors on RIYADISI product, we wish them all the best for the next phases of the product and looking forward to see this novel product in the market in near future.

Refer following video for more details – Video credits to live@8

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Welcome the Reload man!

October 31, 2014

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He is dressed in a bright orange coat and carries a point of sales (POS) machine which looks very similar to a mobile credit card machine. You can see him in public places such as bus stands and railway stations and you can get to know his existence by the special sound that his device makes. Pre-paid mobile users gather around him to reload their mobile phones. Welcome the Reload man to town!

According to statistics, while 90% of the country’s mobile users are pre-paid and the majority of reload outlets do not provide reload facilities for all mobile communication networks. Z reload service from Sampath bank which powers the reload man has now enabled a hassle-free top up of prepaid mobile connections belonging to any mobile network.

Sampath Bank along with Imovation Data Solutions (Pvt) Ltd is behind this new service. It support reloading of a connection belongs to any Mobile operator network in Sri Lanka namely Airtel, Dialog, Etisalat, Hutch and Mobitel.

Main technology behind this mobile reload mechanism is Margento DOV (Data over Voice), a patented and proprietary contactless data-over-voice transaction technology. In a nutshell, the POS device modulates transaction data into voice signals and sends them to the processing center through the voice connection established by the customer with his mobile phone. Thus, phone serves as a communication device between the point-of-sale terminal and Application servers. They communicate in the same manner as mobile people do – using speech and a mobile phone. DOV ensures fast, highly secure and cost-effective wireless transmission of the transaction messages from a POS machine to the central application servers for further approval of payments and other transactions.

Advantages of Z reload

No more scratch cards, IVR calls, SMS typing or menu browsing required for reload
Eliminates the need to reveal mobile phone number therefore secure transaction
Reload your phone instantly
Receipt issued for the transaction
Can opt to pay cash or through account (Sampath bank)
Access additional points of sales and save from rebates, discounts or loyalty points.

How does it work?

It’s a simple process – just few seconds for a real time reload.

User hand over cash to the Reload man
User dials 8811 from his mobile phone and holds it above the screen of the POS machine.
Transaction completed notification appears on machine screen
A receipt prints from the machine
A SMS notification receives to the user with transaction details

The Nexus 6 is here with Android Lollipop

October 15, 2014

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