Rubber-band ball:
The orb was created by Joel Waul, a 28-year-old clothing store worker who lives in Lauderhill, near Ft. Lauderdale.
Number of rubber bands: 720,000+
Weight: 9,032 pounds when last weighed. About 400 pounds of bands have been added since then.
Circumference: 25 feet, 4 inches
Height: 6 feet, 7 inches
Largest Mobile/Cell Phone
WHO: Cricket Communications and Samsung Mobile
WHAT: 4.57 x 3.42 x .74 m (15 x 11.2 x 2.5 ft)
WHERE: Illinois, USA
WHEN: 11 March 2009
The largest functioning mobile phone is a scaled up Samsung SCH-r450. It measures 4.57 x 3.42 x .74 m (15 x 11.2 x 2.5 ft), was achieved by Cricket Communications and Samsung Mobile, and was unveiled at an event coordinated by creative agency Neverstop (all USA) in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on 11 March 2009.
Largest Bike:
Officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, Gregory Dunham, from California's Stockton, built the world's largest motorcycle. Greg spent three years in his workshop crafting this 11 feet tall, 20 feet long monster bike which is powered by a 8.2 litre (V8 engine and has tyres that are 1.88 m tall. The 6,500-pound motorcycle with a pricetag of $300,000 is totally rideable.
largest cross-word:
The Ukrainian city of Lvov has recently installed what might just be the world's largest crossword (in physical size). The puzzle covers the entire side of a residential tower block that's approximately 30 meters tall. During the day the crossword appears empty - with the answers lighting up at night. The questions for the puzzle are located in different point of interests of the city: monuments, theaters, fountains etc. so people walking around the city can try to solve the puzzle and write down their answers. When night comes they can meet at this house and check how they did.
largest chair:
This is not Photo-shopped —it's an actual photograph of the world's largest chair, in the piazza of Manzano, Italy, a city of chair makers where it was created.
World's Largest Soccer Ball:
Sponsored by official FIFA World Cup sponsor KIA Motors and Emperors Palace Resort.
The ball takes 3.5 hours to inflate, weighs 650 kg and has already been on display for 3 weeks at the Emporor's Palace resort near Johannesburg's O.R. International airport. Its 15.66 m in diameter.
Biggest ship:
Batillus, built in 1976 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire for the French branch of Shell Oil.
Largest Shopping Bag:
Kaufland, Romania’s second largest supermarket chain, scored a Guinness World Records™ achievement when it unveiled the largest shopping bag made from paper at one of its superstores in Bucharest, Romania.
Kaufland designed and constructed their gigantic shopping bag – 4.18 m (13 ft 8 in) wide, 6.62 m (21 ft 8 in) high and 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) deep – from recycled paper in an effort to promote recycling among its customers.
Largest Book:
The award for largest published book goes to an author and scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Hawley. The 133-pound book is five by seven feet, 112 pages, needs a gallon of ink for printing, and costs $2,000 to produce. Its title? “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom.”
Biggest Pencil:
This mother-of-all writing utensils weighs in at 21,500 lbs and stretches to 76 feet long and it’s a version of the classic No. 2. The huge pencil was built in New York by Ashrita Furman and many talented craftsmen.
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