Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Gennai Yanagisawa from Matsumoto, central Japan, has created a 75kg (165-pound) one-man aircraft.

Yogesh Barnela (born on November 22, 1982) of Bhiwani, Haryana, India, has made a spinning wheel measuring length 6 mm, width 7 mm, height 5.5 mm and weighs 60 milligrams, using matchstick, broomstick, steel wire, plastic wire, and thread, between March 8, 2012 and March 12, 2012. He took four days to create this spinning wheel.

BSG Luxury Group made a mirrored disco ball measuring 9.98 m (32 ft and 9 in) in diameter for Bacardi Russia, which was displayed at the ‘Casa Bacardi, Larger Than Life’ party in Moscow, Russia.  

The Direct Methanol Fuel Cell made by the world leaders in fuel-cell technology for handheld electronic devices Toshiba Corporation and having dimensions 22 x 56 x 4.5mm (maximum of 9.1mm with fuel tank), is the smallest of its kind in the world. Designed for integration into devices as small as digital music players, Toshiba’s DMFC outputs 100 miliwatts of power, the prototype is efficient enough to power an MP3 music player for as long as 20 hours on a single 2cc charge of highly concentrated methanol

Evgeniy Grigoriev (Russia) created the smallest Rubik’s Cube measuring 10 mm (0.39 in) wide. It is fully functional and can be used like a normal Rubik’s Cube.

The longest line of coins stretched for 73.02-kilometer and was made with 3.651 million 25-centavo. The coins were laid out in front of the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, Philippines.

Anish Kumar P (born on May 17, 1990) of Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India, has made a glass aquarium, measuring 22 mm wide, 16 mm high and 13 mm deep, consisting stones, plants and several small fishes, on January 17, 2012, at Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, India.

Takahashi Kaito of SII Nanotechnology Inc, Japan, made the world’s smallest toilet ‘Chisai Benjo’.

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.