Tag: WORLDRECORD

Just a few hours after Oreo announced that it was pursuing a world record for the most Facebook "likes" in 24 hours, Lil Wayne decided to crash the party, and blew the cookie company out of the water. As of right now, Weezy has already garnered more than 480,000 likes on his status, while Oreo's status has attracted a little over 110,000. Wayne's digital manager, Mazy Kazerooni, says the rapper's ...

If there was any doubt about Japan's love of social networking, it's been soundly dashed by the number of tweets the country sent as the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve. The world sent 6,939 tweets per second (TPS) four seconds after Japan's time zone entered into 2011, with the island nation sending the vast majority of "Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu" ("Happy New Year!") tweets. The ...

Way back in December, China unveiled the world's fastest train, which topped out at around 235 miles per hour. Now, less than a year later, the People's Republic has broken its own record with a Shanghai bullet train that can reach speeds of up to 258.86 miles per hour. The new train, which made its record-breaking debut on Tuesday, will begin its regular run between Shanghai and Hangzhou next ...

A University of Toronto engineering graduate student recently set a new world record for man-powered flight. According to Physorg, Todd Reichert flew an ornithopter -- an aircraft that flaps its wings like a bird -- over a field in Tottenham, Ontario, Canada for about 19.3 seconds at 16 mph. It's the first recorded, sustained, man-powered ornithopter flight in history. Reichert filed a claim for ...

A guy named Craig Henderson recently drove from Canada to Mexico in a car that got a Guinness World record-breaking 119.1 miles-per-gallon. More impressive, though, is the fact that he never once had to stop to refuel. That's right, Henderson made it all the way from Blaine, Washington to Chulla Vista, Mexico on just one tank of gas, and consumed just 12.4 gallons of diesel along the 1,384-mile ...

Share According to his website, Peter Craig holds more world records than any other Australian. Spinning, clapping, one-legged jump roping -- you name the weird record-setting feat, and Craig's probably done it. He's also, it turns out, the proud owner of a Wagnerian e-mail address which, at 345 characters, is the world's longest -- according to the URDB. And it works, too. So go ahead and ...

We Americans have a penchant for borrowing traditions from other cultures and making them our own. For example, on Saturday, 90,000 gathered on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota to watch people compete in flugtag. As part of flugtag, which is German for "flight day," teams build awesome homemade aircrafts, and launch them off a platform in order to see who can glide the ...

Well, you can add one more thing to the long list of tasks that computers can complete better than a human: jigsaw puzzle solving. Taeg Sang Cho and his colleagues at the MIT aren't the first to write jigsaw puzzle-solving software; a Danish team wrote a program that was able to solve a 320-piece puzzle back in 2008. While the older program only worked on simple "cartoon-style" drawings with a ...

For those who don't know, 'Asteroids' is one of the most frustrating classic arcade games out there. You pilot a tiny ship around a screen filled with giant rocks that want to destroy you. And every time you shoot one, all it does is break into several smaller rocks that also want to destroy you. But the challenges only start there. You also have to contend with flying saucers shooting lasers, ...

How fast can you fire off a text message? More than likely, not nearly as fast as 23-year-old Seattle resident Franklin Page. According to The Seattle Times, Page is the fastest text messager in the entire world. If his record of entering a 160-character phrase on a Samsung Omnia II cell phone in just 35.54 seconds holds up for a few months, Page will see his name written in the Guinness Book of ...

The Telegraph reports that Pinewood Studios, a film company based in Britain, aims to break the world record for largest movie screening when it shows the 1996 film 'Mission: Impossible' at the studio compound this Saturday. The Tom Cruise thriller, which was filmed at the studio, will be shown to a drive-in audience on a screen measuring 240 feet wide and 60 feet tall. If it goes off without a ...

A couple of very bored Pennsylvania men decided to gun for the world record number of text messages sent in a month, and, over the next four weeks, went about clogging the airwaves with 217,000 SMS messages. The pair, Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were a little shocked, however, when T-Mobile went about clogging Andes's mail box with a $26,000 cell phone bill. Despite having an unlimited ...

Outfits like Nokia have been just rolling in profits from selling oodles of low margin handsets in developing nations across the globe, so it's no shock at all to hear that those very countries have propelled the worldwide usage tally well above the 50 percent mark. According to a wide-ranging United Nations report, around six in ten people across the globe now use mobile phones, and as ...

'Guitar Hero' may have sparked some debate among music's elite about whether or not it's good for the music industry, but among gamers, there's no debate that it is a serious test of skill, particularly the song "Through the Fire and Flames" by DragonForce. It's seven-plus minutes of carpal-tunnel-inducing pain that only the best can survive, and a 14-year-old kid from Texas has recently become ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Sony_announces_VAIO_P'; Not that we really needed Sony to tell us something we already knew, but we certainly appreciate the gesture. The hotly anticipated VAIO P is for real, and it's coming in as the world's lightest 8-inch netbook at just 1.4 pounds. The Vista-based device packs an almost unbelievable 1,600 x 768 resolution LED-backlit XBRITE-ECO LCD ...