We’ve seen some pretty hair-raising record-breaking attempts over the years, but these are some of the most interesting tech records you’ll ever see.
Everything from motorised toilets to the longest Lego railway track ever built. There are some pretty impressive and utterly nerdy records out there. Keep with us to see some of the best incredible, bonkers and amusing records from over the last few years.
Oldest video games YouTuber
But she has now had the title yanked from her by Hamako Mori from Japan. TheGamer Grandmaas she is known is over 89 years old and has been gaming for 38 years.
Youngest professional videogamer
From the old to the very young, gaming is popular with everyone. Victor De Leon III (AKA Lil Poison) holds the record for being the youngestprofessional gamerthough.
He started playing when he was just two years old and started competing at a professional level at the age of four. In 2005, at seven years old, he signed a deal with Major League Gaming, and became the youngest signed professional video gamer. Quite a feat. We’re not sure our parents would have let us do that.
The largest gathering of chess players
Gaming isn’t just for video game players. Plenty of people love board games too.
In 2010, 20,483 people showed their love for chess by turning up to a mass competition. The city of Ahmedabad in India played host to a record-breaking event that saw all these chess players battling it out to smash the world record.
Most drones in the sky
The Chinese city of Xi’an played host to an impressive aerial display in 2018 when a record-breaking 1,300 drones put on an aerial display to smash the record for the Most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously.
As if that wasn’t enough, the drones also had numerous lights allowing them to put on a colourful lighting display too.
A brilliant use of technology and an impressive record-breaking feat. We can’t wait to see what happens when someone tries to top this one.
Fastest robot to solve a Rubik’s cube
We might be afraid that one day robots will take all our jobs and enslave humanity, but in the meantime, they’re being put to some fairly interesting uses.
Take this robot constructed by Zackary Gromko for example. Built to scan a Rubik’s cube, then generate a solution programme, the robot can then use its six arms to solve the puzzle in record time.
The bot is capable of completing a Rubik’s cube in 2.39 seconds and it was that speed that broke the record. Zackary Gromko said at the time that “Even the best human methods up at this point can take 60 turns, but really any cube can be solved in less than 20 turns.”
Maybe robots are superior to people after all.
Longest Lego train track
In 2013, 80 people with a passion for Lego got together in Denmark to build the biggest Lego railway ever constructed. It took nearly 100,000 Lego bricks and railway pieces. The train travelling down the toy railway took around four hours to reach the end of the line andbreak the record.
Fastest speed in a body controlled jet engine powered suit
In 2019, British inventor, Richard Browningset a new recordfor the fastest flight in a body-controlled jet engine-powered suit. The Ironman-like jet engine-powered suit clocked up a staggering speed of 85.06 mph (136.891 km/h) at Brighton Beach in East Sussex, UK
We only hope this is a taste of the future of personal transportation.
The most expensive phone number ever purchased
Phone numbers can be tricky to remember, so people are plenty happy when they manage to get their hands on a great one. Mobile networks often charge a premium for fancy numbers, but none of them are likely to cost as much as the record-breaker.
The most amount of money ever paid for a phone numberwas $2.75 million.
The number in question was 666 6666, which some people might view as bad luck, but in Arabic, it is associated with the word for God.
Largest toothpick sculpture
Star Wars fans are quite a bunch of enthusiasts. As if to prove that point, in 2017 Stan Munro from the New York, USA, took to creating this magnificent model of an Imperial Star Destroyer made entirely of toothpicks.
This record-breaking sculpture measures 1.48 metres long, weighs in at 3.4kg and contains no less than 15,000 toothpicks. An impressive feat of modelling and a brilliant example of attention to detail.
Largest rideable hexapod robot
This impressive machine is a record-breaking six-legged rideable robot lovingly crafted by Matt Denton from Hampshire, UK. At over nine feet tall and 16 feet in diameter, it’s quite a monster. Thishexapod smashed the records in November 2017, but we love how it looks like it was made out of Meccano.
