Tag: RECORD

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, ...

Take a seat, math geeks. According to the BBC News, a scientist has calculated pi, that mathematical constant you might remember from high school, to more digits than ever in the history of time. Fabrice Bellard broke the previous record, which was set last August at 2.6 trillion digits by Daisuke Takahashi, by about 123 billion digits for a grand total of 2.7 trillion digits. What's even more ...

Don't tell Japanese professor Yojiro Ishino that less is more. On November 24, Ishino and his students at the Nagoya Institute of Technology were rewarded for their excessive creation -- a camera with 158 lenses. According to Crunch Gear, the invention was recently certified by Guinness World Records as having more lenses than any other camera in the world. The lenses are lined up in four rows ...

We can already envision the flame fest on this one, so we'll just cut to the chase. Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, has been conducting some pretty interesting tests on incoming students, and he's been recording results that'll surely make audiophiles cringe. He has been asking his students to listen to tracks in MP3 format as well as in formats of much higher quality, all while ...

In a record that will undoubtedly score the record breaker a lot of chicks, Sri Lankan born, Toronto-based TV-watching machine Suresh Joachim has broken his own Guinness world record for "nonstop broadcast-television watching." His latest effort, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, clocked in at a ridiculous 72 hours. His own previous record, which was set in 2005, was 69 hours and 48 minutes ...

Living in a digital world was supposed to mean that all information would be at our fingertips at all times, for the rest of time. Unfortunately, things aren't quite working out that way; many historians fear that lots of material is being lost to a digital black hole, thanks to the high turnover of information on the Internet. Lynne Brindley, head of the British Library, points to two sites, ...

For anyone who tries to deny that texting can be addictive, just take a look at 13-year-old Reina Hardesty. Last month, she sent 14,528 text messages, a number that her father couldn't believe at first. When Greg Hardesty got his daughter's 440-page long phone bill, he saw the number and thought, as he put it, "That's insane, that's impossible." Using a calculator, he realized that it means ...

Considering that the Nintendo Wii has essentially been sold out around the world for roughly two years, is it any surprise that 'Wii Sports' has overtaken 'Super Mario Bros.' as the best-selling game of all time? According to site VGChartz, the game has sold 40.24 million copies in 110 weeks' time. Please keep in mind, though, that 'Wii Sports' is packaged with the Wii console in every country ...

We have only one word. Why? Why on Earth wouldn't anyone make an hour long ringtone? Why would anyone want to hold the Guinness book world record for the longest ringtone? Japanese cell phone content provider Dwango has crafted a 61-minute, 40-second-long ringtone that it claims is the longest handset melody in the world. Dwango has some experience in the realm of absurd ringtones, having ...

Ready for some truly staggering figures? VeriSign has reported that it delivered some 95.4 billion text messages between US carriers in the first six months of the year, setting a new record. Single-day and single-hour records were also set in the same period -- 648 million and 42 million, respectively -- proving that Americans are finally warming up en masse to text messaging as a totally valid ...

QinetiQ just (unofficially) smashed the record for an unmanned flight by a solar airplane, sending its Zephyr craft into the air for a staggering 83 hours and 37 minutes, more than double the official record by "Global Hawk" in 2001, and a good margin more than its last flight. The plane was guided by autopilot and satellites to a height of 60,000 feet, and powers off the sun during the day, ...