Tech Amazing

Guiness Book of World Records has come out with some new records for technology. Here are three incredible ones.The world’s lightest cell phone is the modu. It weighs only 40.1 g. It is manufactured by modu in 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 color screen and 1 GB of internal memory for music and pictures.

The first fully submersible sports car? Yes, it is the Rinspeed sQuba car. It is manufactured by Rinspeed of Switzerland. It was presented 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 below water by a driver wearing breathing apparatus. The sQuba is also environmentally friendly, powered by lithium ion batteries.

The world’s most powerful laser by output is the Texas Petawatt Laser at the University of Texas. On March 31 2008 it achieved an output of one petawatt when it was fired for a tenth of a trillion of a second (0.0000000000001 seconds). The world’s most powerful handheld laser is also in the book. It can burst a balloon from a distance.

What will they think of next? It is certainly an amazing world of technology.