Tag: World Record
Usain Bolt breaks another world record, this time on Twitter
The records keep coming for Jamaican track athlete Usain Bolt. Hot on the heels of his sprint gold medal double at the London 2012 Olympic games, Bolt's broken a record over on social network Twitter too. The micro-blogging social network…
Texting record broken by Swype-using Brit
How quickly do you think you could text "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"? Granted, it's not the sort of thing…
Kid breaks Guitar Hero world record, and Guitar Hero guitar
A 14-year-old has smashed the previous world record for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and managed to break a guitar while doing so. The kid, Danny Johnson, notched up a score of 973,954 on DragonForce’s “Through the Fire and Flames”, breaking the previous record of 899,703.
Danny managed a streak of 3,558 notes in a row, until the blue button broke on the guitar. Harsh luck, considering that there were less than 200 notes to go before the end of the song. His massive score was achieved by calculating the optimum moments to use Star Power – either in the “Red Snake” or “Twin Solo” segments of the song.
Danny plays piano, guitar, drums, saxophone and oboe in real life, and he claims his skills at Guitar Hero help him nail tough real guitar solos. It’s unclear if he’s now an oboe badass, too. Maybe when Oboe Hero is released…
(via the New York Times)
More Guitar Hero shenanigans: Guitar Hero III has made more money than any other videogame ever | Guitar Hero cupcakes are packed with star power
London Games Festival 2008: What's happened, and what's still to come
If you’re a gamer in the UK, you might be aware that it’s currently the London Games Festival, a celebration of all aspects of video games and gaming. It’s been going on since last Friday, and it continues until Nov 7th. Here’s a brief roundup of what’s been going on, and what’s planned for the next few weeks…
Clapped-out Fiat 126 becomes Flat Out Fiat 126
It’s the sort of thing you’d expect Clarkson, Hammond and May to attempt on Top Gear, but this low-down vehicle is the work of car designer Andy Saunders.
So infuriated was he that his 1985 Mini Claustrophobia lost the world record for “lowest car” to another that he decided to literally mash up a 1989 Fiat 126…
New world record: Tallest LEGO tower
You know how much we love LEGO here at Tech Digest, so when we heard about a new world record involving the lovely plasticky bobbly blocks, we had to let you know.
Built in Toronto, and overseen by “official LEGO builders from Denmark”, the tower stands 29.3 metres tall and uses 465,000 bricks, and required a crane to finish the job. It took nearly a month to complete…
Help Firefox 3 set a Guinness World Record – most downloads in a single day
Everyone likes Firefox, apart from Microsoft and Apple, although it’s probably Steve Jobs’s guilty pleasure to sit naked on his Dell, surfing on Mozilla’s browser while listening to the Zune and whipping himself with a copy of Windows.
Now, I should imagine most of us have never been kind enough to donate anything to Mozilla for all their hard work but we’ll all probably download Firefox 3 soon enough, if you haven’t already bagged the beta.
Instead, why not give a little something back that won’t even cost you a penny by helping the company break the Guinness World Record for the most number of downloads in a 24-hour period…
Samsung's SCH-B600 is, officially, a record breaker
In a sensational PR coup that’ll have Samsung marketing men hitting All Bar One on expenses tonight, Samsung’s managed to convince the Guinness World Records book to stick in some of its mobiles.
Three of Samsung’s handsets will feature in the 2008 records compilation – the SCH-B600 is getting in thanks to…
Highest phone call world record attempt
Mobile phone coverage in your home might be difficult to achieve, but spare a thought for Rod Baber, who is attempting to set a world record by making the world's highest phone call – from the summit of Mount Everest….
