Memories, emotions and sweet images have been for long framed and cherished by the whole world, thanks to Kodak. A lover’s picture hidden secretly under the pillow, a mentor’s hung up at your workplace, a deceased dear one’s in your hall to fill the void his/her absence created, your first crush ,framed and hidden in your closet the list sure is endless. But getting every picture framed a displayed had been a sort of a problem, until now that is to say! Yes! The ultimate futuristic hi-tech frame is here!

Kodak has released the worlds first OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) wireless picture frame with exceptionally sharp and vivid image quality. Priced at $1000, it features a sleek 7.6-inch OLED display that can achieve a 16:9 aspect ratio and 800×480 resolutions. And that’s not all, it features built in WiFi, enabling you to stream images, videos and music to the device.

And wait, there’s more – a 2GB of built-in memory which can pull shots directly from Flickr. Cool or what? Displaying still pictures were never so cool and with its video display one sure is reminded of the moving pictures from the Harry Potter novels. Fiction getting real?

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After bringing 15-20 inchers digital photo frames to home, news is that SmartParts offers you better products to deal with by exhibiting its latest creation of world’s largest digital picture frame at CES 2008. Claiming to be the high-resolution 32-inch SP3200 is a great offering by company’s OptiPix family of digital photo frames. The frame features a 32-inch wide screen LCD display with a striking resolution of 1366 x 768. Besides all the flaunting features, it is also being honored as the world’s first and only digital frame with a built-in photo printer, the SP8PRT.

Now on a mere press of a button, you can print the desirable images. Stefan Guelpen, president and co-founder of Smartparts shared that this feature packed photo frame is a clear reflection of company’s allegiance to produce provide pioneering and cutting-edge digital frames across its consumers. Featured above is SmartParts’ 15-inch digital frame.

Bull fighting was an aristocratic sport practiced by folks in Spain. Its origin dates back to 711 A.D, when the first-ever bull fight was scheduled to commemorate the crowning of King Alfonso VIII. But Francis Bacon, U.K. artist associated Bullfighting with constant efforts and a certain amount of authority.

It is this very approach that is clearly presented in his painting ready to fetch $35 million. The auction is scheduled for 14 November at Sotheby’s auction House in New York, ending Sotheby’s contemporary art chief’s long hunt for the artwork completed in 1969.

Known as “Study for Bullfight No.1, 2nd Version”, the painting is one of three images of toreadors grappling with bulls. The painting would be complementary by the Bacon’s 1969 self-portrait from the same collection, estimated at $15 million. Sotheby’s takes the honor in naming the seller as anonymous.

His recording selling artwork was one of his pope photograph “Study for Innocent X,” that fetched him $52.7 million from Sotheby’s auction. In London, the No.2 art market, Sotheby’s would be offering Bacon’s double portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne at an estimated cost of $4.1 million during October’s Frieze Art Fair.

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Known as “Mona Lisa” among the variety of baseball cards, T206 Honus Wagner card is the only desire of the baseball card collectors’. This extraordinary card is lately sold at a record-breaking cost of $2.8 million against its earlier sale of $2.35 million around six-months back. This smoking price of the card has beaten the record cost of the top 27 cards sold till date at public auction.

The auction of the card got over last week only. The T206 baseball card features Wagner in his teens clad in Pittsburgh Pirates uniform. Production of baseball cards dates back to decades ago. But what is so special about T206 Honus Wagner cards that helped them tout as the most-expensive baseball card ever?

In the primitive period, these cards were produced by tobacco companies and use to feature cigarette. In 1909, Honus Wagner was amongst the renowned global shortstops who did not want to promote smoking and thus he produced this card. Only 50-60 samples are expected to exist and out of which few of them are in mint condition.

Around seven years ago (July 2000), this card was owned by Bruce McNall and Wayne Gretzky and was sold on eBay to an anonymous Southern California collector for a smoking $1.27

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Imagine Guinness Book of World Records creating two new categories for the feat, the world’s largest photograph and the world’s largest camera. Yes folks, this has lately happened and the credit for this goes to a three-story-tall image featured from an old California airplane hangar using a special camera.

Measuring more than 44 feet (13 meters/ three stories) tall and 161 feet (49 meters/ 11 stories) long, the hangar-turned-camera is the world’s largest camera, according to the Legacy Project that created this artwork.

The mission of the project was to capture a memorial image of the nearly 5,000-acre (2,023-hectare) Marine Corps Station El Toro, a decommissioned military base. Developers plan to build a 375-acre park, museum district, sports complex and countless homes here, which were decommissioned in 1999 after more than a half-century of use. The photo depicts the control towers, palm trees and a portable toilet.

The massive photograph will be displayed on 6 September at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and will remain there to catching eyeballs till 29 September. Mind you capturing this single image was a humongous task as almost six artists used a minute peephole in the hangar doors to project light from the outside onto a casing of light-sensitive fabric lynching inside the dim facility.

Few details about the canvas used:

A white fabric measuring 31 (0.9 meter) X 111 foot (34-meter) used 20 gallons (75 liters) of light-sensitive emulsion as the photographic negative. I am sure you would be aghast to hear that the bulky fabric imported from Germany, weighed 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms).

After divulging the material for up to 10 days, it was converted into a the size of an Olympic swimming pool, using 600 gallons (2,271 liters) of back-and-white developer solution and 1,200 gallons (4,542 liters) of fixer.