Nike Unveiled activity-tracking wristband

Nike has unveiled its second generation activity-tracking wristband, addressing criticism that its earlier device failed to identify that some activities use more energy than others. The Fuelband SE lets owners define the start and end of a meeting and then tag it - for example as yoga or basketball.

However, speculation that Nike would add a heart monitor or other new sensor to progress accuracy proved incorrect. The New York launch came a fortnight after the Fitbit Force was unveiled a rival activity tracker that introduced a height-measuring altimeter that can record how many stairs its proprietor has climbed. While Nike launched the first Fuelband early last year there has been an explosion of fitness wearables and apps.

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MIT: Terminator' self-assembling cube robots discovered

Cube-shaped robots that can flick, skip and assemble themselves into different shapes have been unveiled by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The small robots, known as M-Blocks, have no exterior parts but can move with an internal flywheel instrument.

The scientists envisage miniaturized swarmbot versions self-assembling like the liquid steel androids and different scales in the Terminator movies. More practically, the researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), believe armies of such cubes could be used for making momentary repairs to bridges or buildings, or as self-assembly, re-configurable scaffolding.

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Dell's Newest Spot tablets shun Windows RT system

Dell has opted not to release a Windows RT device with its latest line-up of tablets and laptops. The US Company had been the last to support the operating system other than its maker, Microsoft. Dell supposed the software had failed to resonate with its clientele because it did not support legacy software available to the full Windows 8 OS.

The firm is in the procedure of being taken over by a group led by its originator, Michael Dell. He plans to stop its shares being widely traded and refocus Dell's operations on business-targeted software and services rather than consumer-focused hardware. Mr. Griffin’s opinion is that there had been resistance from corporate IT departments to the idea of sustaining what was effectively another operating system on top of the various releases of the main Windows OS.

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