Number of View: 1087Tokyo 2016 today showcased its ability to engage with global youth in unique fashion by unveiling the most iconic ambassador in Olympic history – the world’s largest robot proudly bearing the Bid’s logo on his powerful left shoulder. Standing in the heart of Shiokaze Park, the proposed venue to host the beach [...]
Number of View: 268Panasonic has announced that its new alkaline battery brand, the “EVOLTA,” has been recognized by the Guinness World Records as the “World’s No.1 Long Lasting* AA Alkaline Battery.” The Guinness World Records recognized the achievement based on the data obtained from discharge tests Panasonic conducted in accordance with the guidelines set by [...]
Number of View: 227Two young fundraisers are planning a world record pedal-rickshaw ride in aid of grassroots development in India. Simon Etkind and Lianna Hulbert, both 24, will be taking a circuitous 932-mile route from Lands End to Lowestoft to meet the Guinness Book of Records’ requirement of a minimum 1,500 kilometres distance. They aim [...]
Number of View: 278The image we have created is officially ‘The Largest Ground-Based Digital Lunar Mosaic’ (as of June 2009). This will be included in the Guinness World Records 2010 Book. On July 11th 2009, the team were presented with a certificate by Guinness World Records to officially recognise the achievement. We met at Sir [...]
Number of View: 407The first aircraft designed to run exclusively on solar power was introduced near Zurich, Switzerland after spending six years in stealthy development. Record-setting hot air ballooner Bertrand Piccard plans to take the plane, dubbed the Solar Impulse, on several test flights by the end of the year, demonstrating that air travel is [...]
Number of View: 190On Friday, the Bay Harbor Foundation, with the help of Global Electric Motorcars (GEMs), championed clean driving while also setting the world record for the longest parade of electric vehicles — with 218 participating. “We don’t quit here,” said Candace Fitzsimons, executive director for the Bay Harbor Foundation. “I think this was [...]
Number of View: 346These Brooklyn lovebirds are head over heels. Noah Fulmore and Erin Finnegan Saturday became the first people on the planet to tie the knot while weightless. “I just got married in zero gravity,” a thrilled Fulmore, 31, said after marrying his girlfriend of seven years. “It was outstanding,” Fulmore said. “It was [...]
Number of View: 638A dramatic vertical greenhouse shaped like the wings of a dragonfly could revolutionise farming in cities around the world, according to its architect. The bizarre looking 600m tall building was designed by Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut and would be based on Roosevelt Island in New York. Spread across 132 floors it would [...]
Number of View: 242A daredevil set a world speed record for the fastest jet-pack flight on Friday, then broke it again on Saturday … before smashing it on Sunday. Eric Scott from Denver took his hydrogen-peroxide-powered jet pack to a record breaking 43mph on Friday at MotorFair, a motor show in Scotland. Barely 24 hours [...]
Number of View: 624If you had a question about the special theory of relativity back in 1930, you could call up the guy who proposed it. Ancestry.com has posted copies of German telephone books from 1915 to 1981 — including Albert Einstein’s phone number while he was a university professor in Berlin. Back then, just [...]
Number of View: 1169Among the assorted methods to contact Guinness World Records, dialing a special number combination – 4.57 x 3.42 x .74 m (15 x 11.2 x 2.5 ft) – became Cricket Communications’ and Samsung Mobile’s hotline to Guinness World Records success. Envisioned for the two companies by creative agency ‘Neverstop, Inc.’, the fully-operational, [...]
Number of View: 205VietNamNet Bridge – The Guinness World Records will present the world record certificates to the Ba Na – Suoi Mo telpher system in the central city of Da Nang on March 25, the inauguration day of the system. According to Ba Na Hills Company, the operator of the telpher system, the Guinness [...]
