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there are some new ways to track your activity in the pool I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update in case you don't already have a seagull band Fitbit misfit or jawbone abandoned in a dresser drawer at home here comes Sony with another way to keep track of your daily movement quotas sony unveiled the smartband 2 and what stands out here is that it's waterproof for swimming and it tracks your heart rate you don't always see both of those features together there's no screen instead of just vibrates and flashes little LED lights that you to get your attention you can get a vibration to let you know when someone's calling or it can wake you up in the morning after monitoring your sleep movement at night you can also tap it to skip ahead or pause and play music now since there's no screen you can manage it all through an app on iphone or android it's listed as having a battery that lasts for two days and you can switch out the sensor to fit into different color bands just like the Fitbit it's on sales sometime in September heading to 60 countries for around 120 euro which comes to about 135 dollars if you're interested in that you may want to look at the basis peak it's also waterproof for swimming with a heart rate monitor it costs more it's at a retail price of two hundred dollars and that's because it does a little more and it has a screen and swimmers may also be interested in the misfit shine which is now selling a swimmer's edition misfit is a step counter and a sleep tracker that is waterproof and you can attach it to wristbands jewelry your shoe a belt clip the swimmers edition is called speedo shine what a name it's eighty dollars which is ten dollars more than a normal misfit shine even though it basically looks the same and that's because it comes with an extra band a magnetic clip and an action clip for swimming it's also programmed with special speedo firmware that is better accounting your swim laps and there's a little LED screen to on the back so maybe you don't have to keep checking your phone in the middle of a swim session to see how you're doing it comes out September first and you can find it online at misfit com or speedo USA com and Apple stores and speaking of Apple stores if you visit a retail location next week you may notice some changes with where the ipods are stored the blog 9to5 mac says it has Intel from store managers that iPods will be moved to the accessory section so you could just pick one off the rack instead of it being displayed on a table and needing an employee to fetch one out from the back for you to buy apple also made a change to the Apple watch it's also reported that maybe you don't need to go through the process of making an appointment to try it on you could just walk up to try it on in a store and that probably has to do with how crowded it is in the store that's it for this tech news update and you can dive in deeper at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey