Finally, a device that lets you hug people over the internet!

Looking for a gift for someone you really care for, but dont see in the flesh that much? This new piece of kit might be what youre after.

The Like-A-Hug vest, developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, allows Facebook users to hug one another no matter how far apart they are.A Like-A-Hug vest on display at the website of designer Melissa Kit Chow has been touted as "wearable social media" that inflates to embrace wearers whenever Facebook friends "Like" items they post at the social network.Chow worked with Andy Payne and Phil Seaton in the MIT Media Lab to create the puffy black vests, according to her website.Like-A-Hug lets hugs "be given via Facebook, bringing us closer together despite physical distance," Chow said in a post describing the vest.Want to hug back? No problem! Provided the sender is also wearing a Like-A-Hug, the recipient can return a hug by squeezing their own vest to deflate it.Chow described herself as a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design who subtly skews everyday interactions with the environment for "a reawakening of a sensorial spacial experience."

EVGA SLI Twin Turbo Bracket

EVGA is proud to announce a New stylish accessory for your EVGASLI System, the EVGA SLI Twin Turbo Bracket. The bracket attaches securely toyour EVGA 6800GT/6800Ultra SLI graphics cards helping to keep them perfectlyaligned and evenly spaced on your motherboards and does not interfere with theSLI connector. The EVGA SLI Twin Turbo Bracket is made from high qualitylightweight Aluminum with distinct stylish markings to show the world you meanbusiness when it comes to gaming.

Detailed Geforce GTX 280 Pictures

The GTX 280. Unlike the 9800GX2, the card does not come with a HDMI port built in. The heatsink is similar to the 9800GTX, but with additional vents by the sides of the card.

The back

Two SLI connectors are available for TRI-SLI

6+8pin PCI-E power needed, shows how power hungry this card can be.

The rear exhaust

EVGA exhibits NVIDIA Dual-GPU card

Ever before the release of GF100, a dual-GF100 product had been rumoured.The outrageous power consumption figures of the original GF100 meant adual-GPU GF100 was unlikely, yet the rumour persisted, fueled by Galaxy and Mars exhibiting prototypes with exotic power solutions. However, nodual-GF100 made it to the market. Following the successful GF104 launch,a dual-GF104 was then rumoured, and unlike dual-GF100 feasible under300W TDP. However, into 2011, and GTX 295 from 2009 remains the lastNVIDIA dual-GPU product. At CES 2011, EVGA is exhibiting a dual-GPUcard, which appears to be in its final design stages.



The first thing worth noticing is that the new dual-GPU card is a monster. Cooled by a hefty triple-fan cooler, the card is powered by 2x8-pin power, suggesting a TDP in the 375W range. This also breaks the PCI-SIG compliance standards. Furthermore, considering only EVGA has shown such a product, it may be a non-reference product.



On the rear, 8 memory chips are present; 4 per GPU. With no visible footprints for extra memory chips, it does appear likely that each GPU has 8 chips, or 1GB memory. This could suggest that the card is either GF114-based (also hinted at by the slightly rectangular GPU footprint) or a heavily crippled GF110 (less likely).

Three DVI outputs are present, with one SLI connector, enabling Quad-SLI.

Needless to say, this is not the first time we have seen a Fermi generation dual-GPU, but none have made it to the market thus far. However, the EVGA dual-GPU does seem most likely to hit retail at some point.

Source: TechReport

Apple files complaint against Polish grocery website over name and logo

Apple has barely fed its legal hounds with the blood of Samsung and is already setting them on another target, this time a small Polish online grocery website.

The Cupertino, California-based technology giant filed a complaint with the Polish patent office over the grocers alleged infringement of its trademarks, including a similar name and logo.The company is called A.pl, using the Polish domain name extension to create a phonetically similar name to the iPhone maker. The crux of the matter, however, is a logo for its fresh24.pl website, which shows a round apple with a leaf that is strikingly similar to Apples logo design.A.pl labelled the accusations as “ludicrous,” stating that it no longer uses the logo that Apple found objectionable, though it does appear to be still in use at fresh24.pl. It said it is looking into Apples complaint.Of course, the issue would hold more weight if A.pl operated in the technology sector. The grocers website does not in any way look like Apples, nor does its current logo conjure up the idea of the sleek and user-friendly iPhone or iPad. The only remote link the two have is the fact that the grocer does indeed sell apples among its fruit and veg produce.Source: Reuters

ASRock Brings PCIe 3.0 To Fatal1ty Z68

The Fatal1ty brand motherboard is marketed as a high end premium product. Combining the Fatal1ty with PCIe 3.0 configuration, you will get the ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 motherboard. It comes with two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots and one PCIe 2.0 x16 slot which are capable of NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX. The PCIe 3.0 is a next generation standard for PCI Express which has twice the bandwidth compared to PCIe 2.0. Other features include the integrated PLX PEX8608 chip which enables multiple PCIe devices to run at the proper speed simultaneously and the Fatal1ty Mouse Port which has a wide range polling rate from 125Hz to 1000Hz.

See more specifications at the ASRock Website.