Tag: WORLD RECORD

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

By this point, you should fully understand that "Dubai" and "world's largest" go hand-in-hand, so it's quite fitting that said city is receiving the planet's most humongous LED screen. Designed by UAE development company Tameer Holding, the 33-story high display will reportedly be "embedded on an intended commercial tower in the Majan district of Dubailand," where it will stand tall and blast ...

No need to adjust your set -- the United Nations communications chief has boldly predicted that half of planet Earth's population will be hooked on some sort of mobile phone before 2009 dawns. Granted, the numbers he's talking about do look strictly at subscriptions, so a small percentage will be skewed by those with multiple accounts (and thus, multiple numbers), but really, the forecast isn't ...