As cameras keep pushing for great resolution and high capacity secure digital cards reach to provide larger and larger storage capacity, a new milestone has been reached by Microdia … 16GB. Building on the 32GB capacity of their compact flash cards, their 16 gig SDHC card comes with a Class 6 speed of 160x.

Not a lot of details are out yet, but here’s hoping that they’ve improved on the 8 GB SDHC model they are currently offering which uses SD™ Specifications Version 2.00 standard, but is still chained to the FAT32 File format.
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We reported on the very amusing talking wine butler earlier in the year. As my girlfriend loves the odd bottle glass of Merlot or 3 I was going to get her one for her birthday. That was until I priced up the cost of getting it delivered from the States to the UK. The cost of the butler was $66 but when postage and taxes were added on it came to something like $130 which was a bit for what was essentially a joke present.

I was happy to see today that Firebox are selling the same cool talking, hiccuping butler for £14.99, so present sorted .

As if the spork and other ridiculous pieces of cutlery weren’t enough, here comes the one to crown’em all: the Trinacria Cutlery. Apparently inspired by the Sicilian Flag , this device was designed by Kazuyo Komoda.
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Spider-Man 3 made a record breaking $148 million this past weekend. The film now holds the top spot for the most successful movie opening of all time. Sony Pictures, the studio who produced the film, was so happy with the North American box office results they announced that Spider-Man will return for at least three more movies.

Sony Pictures chief executive Michael Lynton had this to say to the BBC on Sunday night:

“Everybody has every intention of making a fourth, a fifth and a sixth and on and on.” There would be “as many as we can make good stories for…”

According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, Spider-Man 3 now holds the record for the most successful opening weekend in history, making $148m (£74m).
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Now this is just going to be the best thing that has ever been invented for the garden, forget fancy mowers, easy fill swimming pools and even trampolines, this entertainment system is for the adults and kids alike, who like to spend a bit of spare time in the garden, get a few friends round, chill the beer or other drinks and watch the live game or movie on the giant screen TV. What on earth could possibly ever be better than that?
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Most corporate bosses have bought or received a mini putting set for their office and often fool around with it while ‘working’. If you’re one of them, you might distribute this to your employees in order to maintain your status and keep the demotivation level reasonable, and if you’re an employee, you can try to use this to show your boss that you too can have a ‘productivity-boosting ludic relaxation’.
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Talk about a love/hate relationship. It looks like the high-profile feud between MySpace and Photobucket might have jump-started a romance between the two companies. MySpace’s move to block content from Photobucket originally got the two parties together in the same room. After that, the two companies stopped fighting with each other and started talking about a partnership… and even a possible merger. The value of the reported merger is estimated to be somewhere around $250-300 million. Photobucket had been shopping itself around for a buyer since late February.

MySpace is smart to make nice with PhotoBucket. According to web stat company Hitwise, “Photobucket Accounts for 73% of MySpace’s Photo-Related Traffic.” And many savvy web users have been using Photobucket as a web marketing tool.

Rumors of the deal first surfaced last weekend on the tech gossip site Valleywag. The deal hasn’t been confirmed yet by either party.

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