London, September 6 : Scientists have created a new design for robot legs, which would involve the use of steel cable tendons and built-in springs, to remove the hindrance that robotic machines face while walking.

One of the greatest barriers facing roboticists is the art of walking.

Legs with joints driven by motors struggle to recycle energy during walking in the way biological legs with springy tendons and muscles do.

But, according to a report in New Scientist, a new design driven by steel cable tendons and with built-in springs could provide the answer.

London, September 6 : Software giant Microsoft has started a bizarre ad campaign featuring its geeky founder Bill Gates and deadpan sitcom star Jerry Seinfeld.

The 160millon-pound campaign is aimed at combating the public’s perception that the company’s latest PC operating system Windows Vista is hard to use compared with rival products from Apple, such as the Mac, iPhone and iPod.

The advert shows Seinfeld helping Gates pick out a pair of shoes in a discount shoe store.

Japan's Sony Corp has made announcement that it’ll recall about 438,000 Vaio portable PCs affected by a potential risk, which is expected to cause them to overheat or even blaze the consumer.

This is one of the biggest computer recalls since 2006, the earlier one being by Dell Inc, when it called up its 4.1 million notebook batteries, which by chance also heated up and caused fires.

A company’s representative said that there are presently around 72,800 PCs in US alone awaiting recall.

Indian market is flooding with electronic products these days, and recently well known consumer electronic and communication company BenQ Corporation, unveiled its E2200HD in India.

It has launched its first 21.5-inch 1080p Full HD LCD monitor, which makes it the world’s first TV to have it. This exclusive TV with high definition comes with a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution along with 300 cd/m2 brightness, 5-millisecond response time, HDMI or VGA inputs and a headphone jack.

San Francisco  - Shares of US memory chip maker SanDisk Corp soared more than 25 per cent early Friday after reports that it might be bought by Korean electronics giant Samsung.

SanDisk's shares have dropped more than 45 per cent since the beginning of the year as the industry reeled from a market glut that has pulled down average selling prices.

Washington, Sept 5 : A United States based analyst has said that it would be a shame if the India-US civil nuclear deal slips through after coming so close in hand.

Deepa Ollapally, Associate Director of Sigur Centre for Asian Studies, Georgetown University, Elliot School said it would be very difficult to re-engineer something like this in future, if the deal does not come through now.