Yao Defen (China) recorded an average height of 233.3 cm (7 ft 7 in) when last documented. There is evidence that suggests Defen may still be growing, as a portion of tumour remains on her pituitary gland, the organ that regulates the production of growth hormone. She is currently too ill to be re-measured.
Zeng Jinlian (China) (b. 26 June 1964) of Yujiang village in the Bright Moon Commune, Hunan Province, measured 2.48 m (8 ft 1.75 in) when she died on 13 February 1982. This figure represented her height with assumed normal spinal curvature because she suffered from severe scoliosis (curvature of the spine) and could not stand up straight. She began to grow abnormally from the age of four months and stood 1.56 m (5 ft 1.5 in) before her fourth birthday and 2.17 m (7 ft
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Contortionists Skye Broberg, Nele Siezen and Jola Siezen (all New Zealand) climbed into a box with an interior measuring 66.04 x 68.58 x 55.88 cm (26 x 27 x 22 in) and were able to stay inside for 6 min 13.52 seconds on the set of NZ Smashes Guinness World Records at the Sylvia Park shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 september 2009.
LG Korea has created a fully hi-def (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) liquid-crystal display panel that is a mere 2.6 mm (0.10 in) thick thinner than a UK £1 coin. The 106-cm (42-in) screen uses an ultraslim LED blacklighting system, and the entire unit weighs just 4.2 kg (9 lb 4 oz).
The country with the lowest Body Mass Index (BMI) is Bangladesh, with a national average of 20.5 for women and 20.4 for men. More than 9 million children – more than half of all Bangladeshi children – are underweight and suffer from stunted growth. The fattest nation is the island state of Nauru, where the average BMI is 35. Source: “How Tiny Nauru became the world´s fattest nation”, The Independent (International Edition), 4 February 2011, pp10-11
Samsung’s (South Korea) Ultra Edition 8.4 Z370 is the world’s thinnest 3G mobile phone, featuring a 2-mega-pixel camera mounted in a body just 8.4 mm (0.3 in) thick and just 71 g.
In October 2004 British and Russian scientists announced their discovery of the nanofabric graphene. With a thickness of just one single atom of carbon, graphene is similar to carbon nanotubes and buckyball carbon 60 molecules, but can exist as a single sheet of theoretically an infinite size. In March 2007 scientists announced the development of transistors made from this remarkable material.
The thinnest laptop computer is the Windows 7 Dell Adamo XPS, which ranges between 9.7 mm (0.38 in) at its slimmest point to 10.3 mm (0.41 in) at its thickest – an average of 9.99 mm (0.39). The Adamo stays skinny by relocating key components and tucking the keyboard inside the reinforced 13.4-in display enclosure when closed. It measures 340 x 273.9 x 9.99 mm (13.39 x 10.78 x .39 in) Equipped with a 1,366 x 768 pixel widescreen 16:9 display, the laptop weighs 1.44
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The thinnest handmade chinese noodle measures 0.33 mm (0.01 in) in diametre and was created by Li Enhai (China) on the set of Lo Show dei Record in Rome, Italy, on 1 April 2010. The record was part of the Italian TV series “Lo Show dei Record”.
At the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, USA on 5 February 2006, Hitachi Ltd. (Japan), announced it had developed and verified operation of the world’s smallest and thinnest chip, measuring 0.15 mm² in area, and 7.5 microns (µm) thick. Due to the chip being thinner than paper (typically 80-100 microns), one of its wireless applications could be as an intelligent watermark.