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.

Apple's iPad Mini trounces Microsoft's Surface RT Tablet... in web browsing

Theres no doubt that the battle between tablets will mark 2012 Holiday season. Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Microsoft, Samsung… theyre all battling for their space for the consumer dollars. However, comparing which product might be the best performing one is a daunting task, as different operating systems prevent unified benchmarks.

If you think that benchmarking tablets is not as important, as user experience dictates the sales of the products - think twice. It is exactly the benchmarks that dictate the user experience, since the lack of processing power is what keeps the experience behind.

For example, Apple has kept the market share lead in the tablet space, even though Android devices made a big progress forward. In order to address the rise of smaller tablets, the company recently released iPad Mini, which utilizes Apples own 32nm A5 processor (also used in the latest iPod Touch), and the iPad 4, which relies on brand-new A6 processor. Big challenger for the lead is Microsofts first computer, Surface RT tablet. Microsoft is using Nvidias Tegra 3 processor, which is a year old design.

Futuremark came first out the door with a benchmark that compares Apples latest to Microsofts first, and the results are quite unexpected.

We give you the quote from Futuremark commenting the scores achieved using its universal HTML5 benchmark called Peacekeeper:

Microsoft Surface RT - Peacekeeper score 348

Tested with Peacekeeper, our universal browser benchmark, the Microsoft Surface is slower than the iPad 2 and the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now, its one thing to be slower than other tablets, but the Surface is also slower than the latest phones. For instance, the browser performance of the Galaxy S III is nearly twice that of the Surface, and the iPhone 5 is more than two and a half times faster.

Incidentally, the scores from the Surface are in line with other Tegra 3 devices when running the internal beta build of our next 3DMark, which makes the browser performance all the more disappointing. Internet Explorer 10 is still far behind the competition when it comes to speed.

Apple iPad Mini - Peacekeeper score 515

The iPad Mini has the same dual-core A5 found in the iPad 2, a chip with near identical CPU performance to the A5X found in the iPad 3rd gen. Indeed, Peacekeeper scores from the iPad 2, iPad 3rd gen and iPad Mini are all at the same level provided they are running iOS 6. Against the competition, the iPad Mini outperforms the Nexus 7 but is slower than the Galaxy S III.

Apple iPad (4th gen) - Peacekeeper score 951

Apple says the A6X processor in the 4th gen iPad doubles the CPU and graphics power of the A5X in the third-generation device. Peacekeeper has the 3rd gen iPad with iOS 6 scoring 522 while the 4th gen device scores 951 earning it a place at the top of our leaderboard for mobile devices.

Now, if you are wondering how does a contemporary PC fare, we took a 15.6" Acer Timeline M3 ultrabook with Intel Core i7 processor and GeForce GT 640 graphics card. The score we achieved was no less than 2977, which clearly shows that with tablets, youll sacrifice some smoothness e.g. user experience. Futuremark also delivered an URL to us with the benchmark results, but at the time of writing - the URL in question was offline.