World Record Archive

  • Hitachi Maxell develops magnetic tape cartridge with 50TB capacity

    Hitachi Maxell develops magnetic tape cartridge with 50TB capacity

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Just in January this year, we reported about a very special magnetic tape that was developed by Fujifilm and IBM and that stores a whopping 35TB of data. But yesterday Hitachi Maxell has announced that its new high-capacity magnetic tape even offers 50TB. No wonder Maxell and and its partner in the development of the tape, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, are speaking of a "world record".

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  • Guinness World Records™ Comes To Life With Free App For The Ipad

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    var AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); Guinness World Records: At Your Fingertips App delivers rich multimedia content seamlessly for the iPad April 20, 2010- LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM Guinness World Records, the global...

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  • Smallville can’t be allowed to break Stargate SG-1’s world record

    Smallville can’t be allowed to break Stargate SG-1’s world record

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    We MUST stop this. Somehow Smallville must be canceled before it surpasses Stargate SG-1 and becomes the longest running Sci-fi show in North America's history.

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  • World Record texting speed broken – but can you really call this texting?

    World Record texting speed broken – but can you really call this texting?

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Look, I don’t want to sound like a baby or anything, so a huge congrats to Pedro Matias of Portugal for breakin’ the texting speed World Record. Congrats out to our pair of ladies from the US for their performance as well – walking home with 2nd place $20,000 heavier is nothing to laugh at. What [...]

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  • Hollywood made $10 billion in 2009. In better news, only 5 billion years till the sun runs out of fuel!

    Hollywood made $10 billion in 2009. In better news, only 5 billion years till the sun runs out of fuel!

    Posted on December 28, 2009 | No Comments
    On the face of it, today's story that 2009 was Hollywood's best ever (so thanks for rewarding creativity, America), raking in some $10 billion, should be good news for a few people. It should be good news for the movie studios, which will now invest that money in yachts, caviar, human growth hormone, and sequels to today's sequels. It should be good news for theatre owners, who were concerned that people would stop going to the movies as a result of the recession. Not so! (As if they didn't have a precedent to cite...) It should be good news, in a weird way, to people who pirate movies and bleat that their doing so isn't harming the industry one bit.

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  • Video: The World’s Fastest Remote-Control Car

    Video: The World’s Fastest Remote-Control Car

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Friggin’ nuts. If you wish to live a long life, you should never drive a car over 100 miles per hour. But remotely controlling a vehicle at blazingly fast speeds sounds pretty rad. That’s the idea behind Nic Case’s Schumacher Mi3, who holds the world record for fastest R/C car with a max speed of [...]

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  • Don’t Blink: 392 MPH Glider Tears Through the Air

    Don’t Blink: 392 MPH Glider Tears Through the Air

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    What is the fastest RC aircraft? Amazingly, gliders. The non-powered planes can, in skilled hands, whip up a speed of over 300 mph from a relatively slow wind. That’s a velocity of around 8x the speed of the air driving it. It’s called Dynamic Soaring, or DS, and it requires some specific land and weather [...]

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