The 21 foot doll, named Nana, was created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Colombia's National Day of Childhood. A children's charity in Colombia has set the record for the World's Tallest Rag Doll, measuring higher than a two-story ...
This fancy intense orangy pink diamond ring is the highlight of Sotheby's April 29 sale, which also will include a range of other important colored gemstones. Click through this slideshow to see the five jewels expected to top Sotheby's ...
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Tire Discounters broke the world record for the tallest tire stack with a single tire tower that reached 19.95 feet on March 27, 2014. The measurements were confirmed by an independent surveyor. Tire Discounters, in partnership with Falken ...
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Standard Textile partnered with La Quinta to create the world’s largest Towel Mosaic, breaking a Guinness World Record. Made up of more than 2,500 red, white and blue towels, La Quinta volunteers formed a 26,390 square foot ...
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The French character doll, manufactured circa 1916 by Albert Marque was presented at a specialty auction house for antique childhood items in the US. A new world record has been set by an antique doll, after it fetched a whopping $300,000 ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that customers have deployed more than 1 ...
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Soraa’s third generation (Gen3) GaN on GaN™ LED achieves world-record setting wall-plug-efficiency, outperforming the nearest competitor by 20% at normal operating conditions. In just one year, Soraa has achieved a remarkable ...
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University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip. A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds ...
The record for the longest duration echo in a man-made structure has been decimated by a single shot from a blank loaded pistol—an amazing 112 seconds. It happened inside an oil storage tank buried in the hard rock of a hillside in ...
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Researchers in Japan have created indium phosphide (InP) nanowire (NW) solar cell structures with internal quantum efficiencies (IQEs) that beat the performance of bulk InP-based devices in the short-wavelength range of 300-570nm [Masatoshi ...
Tags: INP Nanowire solar cells, InP SA-MOVPE p-type, InP substrates
Marani Brands (OTC Pink: MRIB) announces full trademark registration acceptance in Mexico. Marani is now trademark registered in Mexico. The Company is looking to announce other trademark approvals in other countries around the world. ...
Christmas came early for Continental Tire the Americas LLC. The Federation Internationale de I'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Records Commission has homologated both the 10-kilometer and 10-mile world speed records from a standing start. ...
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In its search for more advantageous materials and processes for manufacturing efficient thin-film solar cells, ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — ...
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A Japanese team has broken the world record for the longest distance travelled in an electric vehicle on a single charge. The Japan Times reports the four-driver team, featuring 1997 Dakar Rally winner Kenjiro Shinozuka, covered 1300km ...
Tags: Suzuki EV, Single-Charge Record, 1300km, 43-Hour Run
Solexant Corp of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new corporate identity as Siva Power, the culmination of a two-year transition to a platform that aims to create a profitable path to sub-$0.40 per watt solar power, along with what it ...
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