Guinness World Records Book 2009

The 54th edition of the Guinness World Records book has been released. In the 2009 version we can find a few interesting world records such as:

The World’s Oldest Bridesmaid (105 years old)

The Most Expensive Ice-cream Sundae (£12,000)

The World’s Longest Dog, with a nose to tail length of 2m 32cm (7.61 feet)

Oldest living person (114 years and 115 days – Edna Parker, US)

Largest underwater press conference (61 journalists)

Most rotations hanging from a power drill (141)

Worlds fastest talker (655 words per minute)

Fastest suitcase escape (7.04 seconds)

Oldest DNA (800,000 years)

Many of the records in the book were set on last year’s Guinness World Records Day (November 9) when 200,000 people around the world joined in to make or break records as part of the international event.

The Floating Stadium of Singapore

The Float at Marina Bay (or Marina Bay Floating Platform), this floating stadium is the world's largest floating stage. It is located on the waters of the Marina Reservoir, in Marina Bay, Singapore.

Made entirely of steel, the floating platform measures 120 metres long and 83 metres wide. It can bear up to 1,070 tonnes, equivalent to the total weight of 9,000 people, 200 tonnes of stage props and three 30-tonne military vehicles. The gallery at the stadium has a seating capacity of 30,000 people.

The stage took 13 months to build, and by April 2007, the platform and seating gallery were completed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nokia 6600i slider phone launched in india

Nokia has launched a brand new slider phone the Nokia 6600i in India. The newly launched 6600i has a 2.2 inch
color TFT screen, a 5 mega pixel camera along with a double LED flash and auto focus with an 8X zoom.

Available in Black and silver color.The Nokia 6600i slider supports GPRS/EDG
E/HSCSD/BLUETOOTH and USB connectivity, 20 MB internal memory and 16GB expandable memory card slot.The Nokia 6600i Price in India is Rs.13000.

Airfone unveils Airfone Flip 29i, AF 26 and AF 31 Mobile Phones

 Airphone Flip 29i is a Dual SIM Dual Standby Touchscreen phone comes with Unique Flap Design, 2.6 inch display, 1.3 megapixels camera, music/video player and Bluetooth. Airfone Flip 29i touchscreen phone supports GPRS, Handwriting and have expandable memory card slot up to 4GB.The Airfone Flip 29i touchscreen phone comes in Silver color.


Airfone AF 26 is a bar styled Dual SIM Phone comes with 2.2 QVGA display, VGA camera, Video/Audio player, Games and stereo FM Radio. The AF 26 supports polyphonic, mp3 music ringtones, GPRS/WAP, 8GB expandable memory and powered by Li-ion battery which provides long talk time of up to 12 hours. The Airfone AF 26 comes in black color.

Airfone AF 31 is a bar styled multi SIM (CDMA+GSM) or (GS+GSM) phone that boats with 2.0 inch QCIF display, .3 megapixels camera, torch light and FM Radio. The handset supports polyphonic, mp3 ringtones, Bluetooth, WAP, Audio/Video files and have up to 16 GB expandable memory card slot.

The Airfone Flip 29i and AF 31 carries the price tag of Rs. 4999 and AF 26 priced Rs 2999.

Construction Time

A foreign tourist hired a guide to take him around Delhi and Agra. At the
Red Fort at Delhi, he admired the architecture and asked how many years it took to build.

Twenty years, replied the guide.

You Indians are a lazy lot, the tourist said. In my country, this could have been built in five.

At Agra he admired the Taj's beauty and asked how many years it took to
build.

Only ten years, said the guide.

The tourist retorted:You Indians are slow! We can construct such buildings in two-and-a-half.

In this fashion the tourist claimed that every building he admired could have been built in his country in quarter the time. Finally, when they reached the Qutab Minar, and the tourist asked what it was, the guide replied: I don't know. It wasn't there yesterday evening.

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