E&T news weekly #23 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week

Friday October 24 2014   Vitali Vitaliev, features editor Second Chinese high-speed train maker to bid in California’s tender China’s fast progress in the high-speed railway sector is nothing short of astounding if we remember that it practically did not exist in the country, which now boasts the world’s longest high-speed rail network, only 10-15 years ago. I remember having a premonition of the big things to come when attending a SIFER international railway industry exhibition in Lille in 2011, where China’s section was by far the largest. If other countries were represented by a handful of engineers and PR … Continue reading E&T news weekly #23 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week

#Apple HealthKit and Health app aims to spark fitness revolution – an annotated infographic

Whether we like it or not, Apple wants to make us all healthier and more active. Counting our steps, counting our calories, digitally scoffing at our half-baked attempts at fitness – the new Health app is like a disapproving aunt watching over your shoulder, tutting at every anti-health transgression we make. Apple is making the HealthKit open to third-party health metrics, so any fitness device worn by the user can feed data in to the Health app. Whether its your smart earbuds, a smartwatch or smart fitness socks, you’d better be careful what you wear if all you feel like … Continue reading #Apple HealthKit and Health app aims to spark fitness revolution – an annotated infographic