3110 students from Nanjing Agricultural University in China’s Jiangsu Province has set a new world record on April 27 for the biggest human-made smiley face…
World records
Tokyo Sky Tree time-lapse
Time lapse video of Tokyo Sky Tree by Darwinfish105 [Jp]. The construction of the tower – the world’s tallest (634m) – was completed on February 29.
The definition of “tower” differs from “building”, with the later mainly habitable. For many years the world’s tallest tower is taller than the tallest building, but it changed in 2010 with the completion of Burj Khalifa (830m) in the United Arab of Emirates.
Beautiful musical fountain at Lotte Department Store in Busan
Video of a beautiful musical fountain at the Lotte Department Store in Busan, South Korea. Background music (for most part) is Abracadabra by pop group B.E.G.
The “graphic water fall” is a creation of Aquatique Show International, a French company specialises in modern water features. Guinness has recorded this as the world’s tallest indoor music fountain.
Going to visit this if I ever go to Busan. The city is not a high priority in my travel list though.
World’s shortest man, ever
72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal has broken the record for the world’s shortest man. At 54.6cm he’s also the shortest person ever measured…
Lydia Ko becomes youngest professional golf tour winner
Korea-born New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has become the youngest winner of a professional golf tournament, men or women, at the age of 14.
The teenager won the New South Wales Open – an Australian Ladies Professional Golf Event – to break Japanese Ryo Ishikawa’s men’s mark (15 years, 8 months), and Australian Amy Yang’s women’s record of 16 years, 192 days.
Aakash – world’s cheapest tablet computer from India
India has launched what it dubbed as the world’s cheapest tablet computer on Wednesday, to be sold to students at a subsidized price of US$35 and later in shops for about $60.
The touch-screen device, called Aakash, or “sky” in Hindi, is currently assembled by a British company. A pilot run of 100,000 units will be given to students for free, with the first 500 handed out at the launch to a mixed response. Image by Parivartan Sharma, more details on Reuters.
Very little technical information is available beside the fact that it’s running on Android. And speaking of “cheapest”, India also wowed the world in 2008 with Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, which is doing pretty well domestically. What you pay is what you get; but there’s always demand for cheap (and relatively low quality) stuff.