The Christmas lights decoration recently lit at Sun Plaza shopping center in Bucharest, with 449,658 light bulbs, entered the Guinness Book, establishing a record for the Christmas lights decoration with the biggest number of light bulbs. The previous record was of 150,000 light bulbs.
The installation includes more than 500 lights curtains, as well as 40 Christmas trees with 2,400 leds, along with 120 lights garlands along the escalators in the shopping mall. Sun Plaza was opened in February 2010 by EMCT Romania and Sparkassen Immobilien.
Romania has previously got the attention with other world record breaking attempts. In 2008, 4,000 Romanians dressed as Santa Claus in an event attempting to win the Guinness World Record for the most people dressed as Santa in one town. This year, a Romanian designer received a Guinness World Records certificate for a dress with 43,008 crystals.
Biggest Number of Light Bulbs in Christmas Tree World Record 2010 at Sun Plaza Bucharest Vide
Patrick Roger, an chocolate artist from France, made gigantic Chocolate Christmas tree to raise money for charity, auctioning off some parts of the tree and donating proceeds to an organization which studies neuromuscular disease.
Roger unveiled the massive tree in his studio in Sceaux, Paris. The 32-foot-tall, 4-ton Chocolate Tree took a whole month to work on and as talented chocolatier said making something like this was a great challenge for him.
The Chocolate Christmas tree, hailed as a structural wonder, used $45,000 worth of 65% dark chocolate.
Patrick Roger was named best French chocolate artist in 2000, an award for professionals combining taste and art and proving to be worthy representatives of French gastronomy. His laboratory features many other chocolate sculptures, including small reindeers and Santas that will also be exhibited.
With this tree, Roger set the new world record for the Tallest Chocolate Christmas Tree, beating Alain Roby who constructed a 22-foot-tall chocolate Christmas tree, but whose work was never submitted to Guinness World Records for recognition.
World's Tallest Chocolate Christmas Tree World Record 2010
I do it for the whole month because that's when the Christmas season starts," he said. "It allows people to come down and see Santa. It's not just one day and it brings joy the whole month.
Here comes Santa Claus ... on a surf board? For more than 16 years, Michael Pless, 60, has been the local surfing Santa in Seal Beach.
"I've been Santa since the early '70s for my own kids and lots of other kids. I used to go to houses and it brought lots of joy," he said.
Now, Pless rides the waves in his special made Santa suit and into the hearts of many.
As owner of M & M Surfing School in Seal Beach, Pless surfs nearly every day. So, he combined two things he loves; surfing and bringing joy to others.
"I decided to take Santa to the beach because it brings the spirit of Christmas to the beach and people like surfing with him," he said.
For the first time, surfing Santa this year is a family affair. Pless' wife, Jill is surfing as Mrs. Santa and his son, Michael Jr., portrays Frosty the Snowman.
"There's a good reaction from people because it brings joy to everyone, adults and kids, just to see Santa out there," he said." taking only Christmas Day off.
Pless, who started surfing at 12, not only runs a surfing school, but a respiratory business and at one time a decorating business. He also teaches science to kids grades kindergarten to 12 for his wife's home school business.
"In my spare time I sleep a little," he said.
Although his days are full, Pless enjoys all he does.
"Surfing is actually my real job and the funny part - it's not a job," he said. "Hopefully, I bring some type of joy and enjoyment for people who are near me, which I try to do yearround. The Santa thing is just at Christmas."
When he's on shore between riding waves, surfing Santa gets the same reactions as a department store Santa.
"Everyone is always very excited. They gather around and tell Santa what they want for Christmas and the kids come up and say `hi,' " he said
Nanotechnology experts have unveiled a Christmas card so small that more than 8,000 of them could fit on a first-class stamp.
The card produced by the University of Glasgow, said to be the smallest in the world, is invisible to the naked eye.
The university's school of engineering drew up the design to highlight its "world-leading" nanotechnology expertise.
A total of 8,276 of the cards could be placed on an area the size of a stamp.
Professor David Cumming and Dr Qin Chen etched the Christmas tree image on to a minute piece of glass.
Prof Cumming said: "Our nanotechnology is among the best in the world but sometimes explaining to the public what the technology is capable of can be a bit tricky. We decided that producing this Christmas card was a simple way to show just how accurate our technology is.
"The process to manufacture the card only took 30 minutes. It was very straightforward to produce as the process is highly repeatable - the design of the card took far longer than the production.
"The card is 200 micro-metres wide by 290 micro-metres tall. To put that into some sort of perspective, a micro-metre is a millionth of a metre; the width of a human hair is about 100 micro-metres. You could fit over half a million of them on to a standard A5 Christmas card - but signing them would prove to be a bit of a challenge."
The colours were produced by a process known as plasmon resonance in a patterned aluminium film made in the university's James Watt Nanofabrication Centre.
Although the Christmas card example is a simple demonstration, the university said the underlying technology has important real-world applications
From atop, the GMDC ground resembles one mammoth chess board in black and white. And fittingly so, given that Ahmedabad is all set to break a mammoth world record on Friday.
As many as 20,000 people and 1,200 masters will gather at the ground in the afternoon for a game of chess. In the process, they will break Mexico's Guinness world record of the largest number of people playing the game together at the same time. El Zocalo, Mexico City's central square, had set the record when 13,446 players had assembled to play chess on October 21, 2006. Former world champion Anatoly Karpov was the guest of honour in Mexico while Ahmedabad will have current world champion Viswanathan Anand.
after his first world championship title in 2000, Anand had nurtured a desire to make India the epicentre of chess. And, for the past 10 years, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was looking for a way to bring the game into the collective consciousness of Gujaratis. The record-breaking event is the coming together of these two aspirations with the Gujarat State Chess Association, NIIT and the Gujarat government working for it for 10 months. A lady adjudicator from Guinness Book arrived in the city from London on Thursday. "We can't divulge the name of the adjudicator now but yes, she will ensure that everything is in place for the record," said one of the organisers.
Friday will see 1,000 masters play simultaneously against 20,000 participants. Each master will take on 20 players. Another 200 masters will be on stand by. The ground has been divided into 64 squares with 320 participants in one square. "We have never attempted anything on this scale, which makes it unique and will be a very important feat both for Gujarat and India," Anand had said in an interview to TOI in the build-up to the event. "This is only the beginning of a chess revolution," he had said.
After his first world championship title in 2000, Anand had nurtured a desire to make India the epicentre of chess. And, for the past 10 years, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was looking for a way to bring the game into the collective consciousness of Gujaratis. The record-breaking event is the coming together of these two aspirations with the Gujarat State Chess Association, NIIT and the Gujarat government working for it for 10 months. A lady adjudicator from Guinness Book arrived in the city from London on Thursday. "We can't divulge the name of the adjudicator now but yes, she will ensure that everything is in place for the record," said one of the organisers.
Friday will see 1,000 masters play simultaneously against 20,000 participants. Each master will take on 20 players. Another 200 masters will be on stand by. The ground has been divided into 64 squares with 320 participants in one square. "We have never attempted anything on this scale, which makes it unique and will be a very important feat both for Gujarat and India," Anand had said in an interview to TOI in the build-up to the event. "This is only the beginning of a chess revolution," he had said.
Swarnim Chess Mahotsav 2010 - Chess Guinness World Record 2010 Video - Ahmedabad, Gujarat India
Latest World Records 2010 Feats
Biggest Number of Light Bulbs in Christmas Tree World Record set by Sun Plaza Bucharest - Saturday, December 25, 2010
World's Tallest Chocolate Christmas Tree World Record set by Patrick Roger - Saturday, December 25, 2010
Surfing Santa Claus in Seal Beach set World Record - Saturday, December 25, 2010
World's Smallest Christmas Greeting Card World Record set by University of Glasgow - Saturday, December 25, 2010
Largest Number of People Playing Chess Game in Ahmedabad set Guinness World Record - Friday, December 24, 2010
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