Author: Asia Book of Records Team

GeStream Technology Inc., of Taiwan, made a robot which measures 153 mm in height, and was demonstrated at the Global SMEs convention, on September 6, 2007, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The miniature robot, named Be-Robot, can walk, kick and perform push-ups as well.

On 7 February 2002, Yihua Gao and Yoshio Bando of the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, announced they had created a thermometer from a single carbon nanotube. Measuring just 75 nanometres wide and with a length of around 10,000 nanometers, the tube contains liquid gallium, whose linear expansion properties allow the measurement of temperature in a wide range from 50-500 Celsius (122-932F). It is hoped that this new use of carbon nanotubes will allow the measurement of temperature in diverse microenvironments.

Over 1,200 people danced for three minutes on the song “Munni Badnaam Hui”, led by Malaika Arora Khan, in Melbourne, Australia. The event was organized by Indian Film Festival 2011 director Mitu Bhowmick Lange.

The largest human cross was achieved by 13,266 participants at an event organized by the University of Santo Tomas (Philippines) in Manila, Philippines, on 9 March 2011.

Researchers from The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore, successfully demonstrated the worlds smallest fully controlled rotation of a molecule-sized gear. The gear, which looks like a wheel, is made out of a hexa-t-butyl-pyrimidopentaphenylbenzene (C64N2H76; HB-NBP) molecule and is connected to the ‘spokes’ of the wheel which are made up of six t-butyl outer groups that lift the central molecule core from the substrate surface. The research opens the way for the future development of molecule-sized machines that may lead to innovations like pocket-sized supercomputers, miniature energy harvesting devices and data computing on atomic scale electronic circuits.

The largest collection of Super Mario memorabilia contains 5,441 individual, unique items and belongs to Mitsugu Kikai (Japan). It was counted in Tokyo, Japan on 15 July 2010.

Chameleon’ by the Russian author Anton Chekhov  which measures 0.9 x 0.9 mm is the smallest ever printed book. The book was made and published by Anatoliy Konenko, of Omsk, Siberia, Russia in 1996. Each book consists of 30 pages, has three colour illustrations and 11 lines of text to a page. The book is printed in a limited edition of 100 copies , half in English, half in Russian. It is bound in gold, silver and leather and sewn in silk. Each copy retails for US$500 (£320 at 1996 rate).

Mohit Jangid (born on July 31, 1992) of Jaipur, Rajasthan, has made the smallest violin of length 13 cm. It is played by a specially designed bow, made of sandalwood and has four strings attached to it. He has also created a dummy violin with four strings, measuring 1.9 cm.

B.Sridhar (Born November 9, 1981) from Tamil Nadu, India, performed non-stop playing of Darbuka (an Arabic musical instrument) for continuous 12 hours and 45 minutes, starting from 9 am and ending at 9:45 pm, on June 10, 2012, at Abirami Mega mall, Tamil Nadu, India.

A wooden book, measuring 120kg in weight, 125cm in length, 80cm in height and 16cm in width, was made by Prof. Dr. Hoang Quang Thuan of Vietnam. The enormous book, which was made by using mahogany wood, has 300 pages with 143 Vietnamese poems (written in calligraphy with illustrations), and is named as “Poetic Clouds of Yen Tu”.  He wrote the book from 2008 to 2011.