Gizmodo: guinness world record

Tricycle Robot Overcomes Pebbles and Stiff Breezes to Take Distance World Record

Sean Fallon — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:20:00 EDT

Despite its diminutive size, Panasonic's scrappy little EVOLTA-powered robot managed to make 5 laps around the LeMans circuit in France over a period of 24 hours before running out of juice. That's nearly 15 miles on just two AA batteries.

That accomplishment earned Panasonic the Guinness World Record for "the longest distance covered by a battery-operated remote-controlled model car." Impressive, but I still say rechargeables are where it's at. [Evolta via Crunchgear]

460,000-Brick Lego Tower Breaks World Record

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:30:00 EDT

At 96.73 feet (29.485 meters) this Lego tower built in the Rathaus Platz in Vienna has broken the world record for the tallest Lego construction in the world. It took nearly 460,000 bricks and it was built over four days. The views from the top are quite stunning.

The tower included 121 plates designed and built by 3,000 kids using 2 x 4 Lego bricks. The kids participated in the building process to celebrate 100 Years of the Friends of Children festival in Austria. The previous Guinness World Record was set at 96.13-feet (29.3 meters), last May in Legoland Windsor.

If you are working in a Go Miniman Go contest video, it doesn't need to be 96.73 feet high or take 3,000 kids to complete. It just needs to be whatever size and technique you want, as soon as it's funny and gets to us by the end of the month deadline. If you want to participate, check the contest rules here and send your video now. [Brothers Brick via Brickarms]

Turiba University Sets World Record With 1,911 Simultaneous Coke-Mentos Explosions

Jack Loftus — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Some people celebrate anniversaries with food, or a little dancing, but Business University Turiba in Latvia decided to have a little fun with a Gizmodo favorite: the ol' Mento in the Coke reaction. For the school's 15th anniversary, the students set out the break the previous world record for this category, which was held by 1,499 Belgian students in the town of Leuven. Last Thursday, they succeeded, and the contents of 1,911 bottles of Coke were sprayed violently upward, and into history.

Guinness World Record representative Erica Attivor was on site and approved the record, which looked messy, to say the least.And then, for some reason, they broke out the flamethrowers. Coke, Mentos, and flamethrowers? Sounds like a Gizmodo-endorsed party if I ever heard of one.[TVNET, Krabjiem, Apollo]

There Was a Text Messaging World Record?

tgrumet — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:36:08 EST

Yes, that's right, not only was there a text messaging world record, but now it's been broken. Obviously by someone really, really bored or just unable to speak words to other human beings. Whatever the case, Kimberly Yeo, a 28 year old Singaporean business student has smashed—yes smashed, I say—the Guinness World Record, making the new record 26 words tapped into a mobile phone in a stunning 43.24 seconds. And you know what that message was?

"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."

That includes proper punctuation and all the right upper and lower case letters intact. Bitchin' Kim. The prize was around $10,000, so hats off to the speedy and obviously very quiet lady—who claims she sends an average of 1500 text messages a month.

Text Messaging World Record Smashed [Mobileburn]