Gizmodo: guinness world records

Tell Us What You'd Shoot Using a Camera With 158 Lenses

Kat Hannaford — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:00:24 EST

The Guinness World Records doesn't just award insanely tall men and disgusting long fingernails, you know. Sometimes they happen over to our side of the crazy pool, to give recognition to things like the camera with the most lenses ever.

Created at the Nagoya Institute of Technology of Japan (it had to be Japan), the camera you can see above was constructed using 158 lenses, which were attached in four rows, spanning 47cm in diameter. As each lens only cost $2.10 it's entirely realistic to try and top their record for next year's Guinness book, but bear in mind it took the team of students six months to build. Better organize some cheap labor. [Sankei News via CrunchGear]

Man Makes 141 Rotations Hanging From a Power Drill, Sets Stupid World Record

Sean Fallon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:40:00 EDT

Here is the trick to setting world records—aim low and think of the stupidest record possible. Case in point—the record for most rotations while hanging from a power drill.

See? You don't have to spend millions and risk your life to set the land speed record just to be recognized by Guinness. Just stick a drill in the ceiling and hang on tight. If you have a problem with motion sickness, I hear the record for most plastic green army men stuffed into an adult diaper is still up for grabs. [about:blank]

Netflix Movie-Watching Marathon Ends After 123 Hour and 10 Minute Record

Sean Fallon — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Apparently the sight of Susan Sarandon was too much for the final two contestants in the Netflix Movie Watching World Championship in NYC. After a record-breaking 57 movies or 123 hours and 10 minutes of nearly constant entertainment, Suresh Joachim (as predicted) and Claudia Wavra walked away with the coveted Popcorn Bowl Trophy during the movie Thelma and Louise. Although, I am surprised they didn't break down and run into traffic when Richard Simmons made an appearance. [Geeksugar]

Guinness-Record Movie Marathon Starts Now, Ends When Everyone's Asleep

Wilson Rothman — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:00:00 EDT

Today in a glass-walled room in New York's Time Square, Netflix gathered six of the world's brightest talents in the field of sitting on ass and watching movies. The goal was to break the current Guinness continuous-movie-watching world record of 120 hours 23 minutes. They can eat, drink and stretch as long as they don't take their eyes off the screen, and there's a 10-min potty break between features, but other than that, it's about staying alert. Make no mistake. In spite of their matching Netflix bowling jackets, this ain't no relay race. These people are out to crush each other—CRUSH!—by staring at a large plasma screen the longest. Here's how it looks on Day One:

Reigning movie marathoner Ashish Sharma claims he will retain the title for India, but he's a little cocky since he only stole that title in June from Germany's Claudia Wavra, a three-time champ in her own right.

Suresh Joachim has a Heroes-sounding name and with good reason: He's got 32 damn Guinness World Records, including TV watching, dancing, DJing and ironing clothes.

Other contenders (with maybe less of a shot) include 2003 continuous-movie-watching contender Cheryl Jones, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire champ (but non-millionaire) Jeff Jones and film lover and competitive eating champion Crazy Legs Conti.

While I am genuinely excited for these couch-bound sojourners, I am a little leery of the film choices. First they saw Iron Man, then Best in Show and then Ghostbusters, great. But by now they're probably midway through The English Patient. WHAT? Is there a rule that says some movies have to deliberately try to put them to sleep? Going to romantic tragic period piece this early is a bad sign, especially if that's it for the superhero, mockumentary and supernatural action-comedy genres. I will pray for you people—pray for some Batman. [Gothamist; Netflix]

Folding@home Recognized By Guinness World Records

Mark Wilson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:48:15 EDT

Guinness World Records has acknowledged Folding@home as the world's most powerful distributed computing project. On September 16, 2007, months after the program was first distributed to PS3s, Folding@home hit 1 petaflop—setting the record. But just a week later (September 23), PS3 users alone reached the petraflop mark. While Kaz Hirai revealed some of these numbers at his Tokyo Game Show keynote last month, it's good to see gamers who are fueling Folding@home immortalized in the same context as marathon teeter-totterers and that guy who ate an airplane. Because they deserve it. [image]

Samsung Holds 3 World Records for Cellphones

msparkes — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:36:12 EDT

The 2008 edition of the Guinness World Records book will feature three records for Samsung cellphones. The SGH-U100 is the world's thinnest cellphone at 5.9mm, the SCH-B600 has the highest photo resolution in a cellphone at 10MP and the SGH-Z370 is the world's thinnest 3G cellphone at 8.4mm. However, with the speed that these records change, it seems like the achievement isn't just in making these phones, but releasing them to coincide with the compiling of the next book. [I4U]