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The 2009 Guiness Book of Records 15 quirky new records, by editor Glenday.

The world’s lightest mobile phone is the modu, which weighs 40.1 g. It is manufactured by modu of Israel and was launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 11 2008.
The modu is just 72.1 mm tall, 37.6 mm wide and 7.8 mm thick. It has a full-colour screen and 1 GB of internal memory for music and photos.



According to analyst firm iSuppli, the original Apple iPhone outsold all other models of smartphone in the USA in July 2007, its first full month on sale. In the last four months of last year, Apple sold 2,315,000 iPhones, making the iPhone the fastest-selling smartphone yet.
"Records are being broken all the time," says Craig Glenday, editor of Guinness World Records. "And the iPhone is the nicest, sexiest bit of kit out there."



In just one week during January 2008 no less than four undersea internet cables were cut, breaking the connections of millions of users in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Some experts have blamed ships dragging their anchors across sea floors – whereas others suspect intentional sabotage by unknown agents.



In November 2007, American scientists announced the creation of a genetically modified mouse with extraordinary physical abilities. In tests, the mouse ran nonstop at 20 m per minute for five hours. It is described as being 10 times more active than a normal mouse.
"I just loved the idea of a real-life Mighty Mouse," Guinness World Records editor Craig Glenday told Tech & Gadgets.



The ATLAS detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) is 46 m long, 25 m wide and 25 m high. It weighs 7,000 tonnes and contains 100 million sensors that measure the particles produced by collisions inside the LHC. The last piece of ATLAS, the instrument’s muon spectrometer, was installed in March 2008.
"I love the idea that major, important records are being made all the time," says Craig Glenday, editor of Guinness World Records. "A whole new area of physics is going to open up to us with this one experiment."



In 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros on the NES console. The game’s large, complex scrolling levels changed 2D platformers forever and it remains the best-selling video game of all time, with over 40 million copies sold.
"It has that kind of unending appeal," says Craig Glenday, editor of Guinness World Records. "It's somehow reassuring that all these oldies and classics are still with us."



On April 29 2008, the release of Grand Theft Auto IV generated $310 million (£174 million) worth of first-day sales. This is more than five times the $60 million (£34 million) revenue made by the most successful 24 hours for a movie – a record held by Spiderman 3.
"Halo 3 was the first time that a game had overtaken movies," says Craig Glenday, editor of Guinness World Records. "But then GTA IV, available on more platforms, smashed that record."



In September 2002, Faiz Chopdat was jailed for four months for playing Tetris on his mobile phone while on a flight home to the UK, “endangering the safety of the aircraft”. Cabin staff warned Chopdat twice to turn off the game and he was arrested upon touching down in Manchester.
"We found this story in the paper and were intrigued by it," Guinness World Records editor Craig Glenday told Tech & Gadgets. "We couldn't find any longer sentences for playing games, so that was the mark set for this record."



The record for highest score for playing a single track in Guitar Hero III is 899,703 points. This was achieved by Chris Chike of the USA with the song Through the Fire and Flames, which also holds the record for the hardest song in Guitar Hero.
"If anyone wants to break the record, they have to do it under our rules," says Craig Glenday, editor of Guiness World Records. "We always say if you want to try it then contact us first."



Since January 21 2008, Call of Duty 4 has been the most played Xbox Live game, according to unique user statistics, consistently beating Halo 3 into second place with more than 1.3 million people playing the game daily. High figures are also reported for the PlayStation 3 edition of the game.
"Everyone has this idea that the most-played online game is World of Warcraft," Guinness World Records editor Craig Glenday told Tech & Gadgets. "But the amount of variation in Call of Duty 4… makes it the record holder."



The first fully submersible sports car is the Rinspeed sQuba car, manufactured by Rinspeed of Switzerland. It was presented to the public at the Geneva Motorshow on March 6 2008.
This open-top car can be driven on land, float on the surface of water and steered to depths of 10 m – by a driver wearing breathing apparatus. The sQuba, inspired by James Bond’s underwater car in The Spy Who Loved Me, is also environmentally friendly, powered by lithium ion batteries.



The world’s heaviest motorcycle is the Harzer Bike Schmiede, built by Tilo and Wilfried Niebel of Germany. The Harzer Bike Schmiede, which entered the record books on November 23 2007, weighs 4.75 tonnes.
"This massive bike looks like steampunk engineering - very old-fashioned, very German," says Craig Glenday, editor of Guiness Word Records.



Look at the size of that !!

The world’s first speedcabling competition was held in Los Angeles in January 2008. The aim of this new ‘sport’ is to untangle a mass of cables and wires in the fastest time and in such a way that the wires can still carry a network signal.
The winner of the final was web designer Matthew Howell of the USA, who was the quickest to unknot 12 ethernet cables. In order to tangle wires in a random and fair way, speedcabling inventor Steven Schlonke ties them up in a figure of 8 then spins them in a tumbledrier.



The world’s most powerful laser by output in terms of wattage is the Texas Petawatt Laser at the University of Texas. On March 31 2008 it achieved an output of one petawatt (1,000,000,000,000,000 Watts) when it was fired for a tenth of a trillion of a second (0.0000000000001 seconds).
"My deputy editor is obsessed with lasers," Guinness World Records editor Craig Glenday told Tech & Gadgets. "The world's most powerful handheld laser is also in the book. We actually have one of them in the office - it can burst balloons from a distance."



The world’s fastest production car is the Ultimate Aero TT, manufactured by Shelby SuperCars of the USA. The Ultimate Aero achieved two-way timed speeds in excess of 256 mph on Highway 221, Washington, USA, on September 13 2007.
"Everyone remembers the Bugatti Veyron as being the fastest - but now it's the Aero TT," Guinness World Records editor Craig Glenday told Tech & Gadgets.



"People say to us that there's no more records to be set any more, everything's been done," says Craig Glenday, editor of Guinness World Records. "But the public are endlessly inventive."

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