World's Smallest Christmas Greeting Card World Record set by University of Glasgow

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.

Biggest Number of Light Bulbs in Christmas Tree World Record set by Sun Plaza Bucharest

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 Video

World Tallest Decorated Christmas Tree World Record set by Jakarta

For the second year in a row in Indonesia, a shopping center has created the world's tallest replica Christmas tree, decorated with one million lights.

The chairman of the Indonesian World Record Museum has given an award to the Central Park shopping center in Jakarta on Saturday.

[Jaya Suprana, Indonesian World Record Museum]:
"Today’s record is very interesting. It’s a good idea as a marketing concept. In welcoming the Christmas season, Central Park creates the tallest Christmas tree in Indonesia. This will become history and a tourist attraction for visitors.”

The lighting of the 120-foot Christmas tree replica was enlivened by sparkling fireworks and snow effects that were scattered from the top of the tree.

The lofty replica is built of iron covered with plastic fir.

The star on the top is made of LED lights and a million colored LED lights highlighting the tree itself.

Central Park broke the record for the tallest Christmas tree last year but this year’s record-breaker reaches 120 feet.

[Jaya Suprana, Indonesian World Record Museum]:
"This record has actually broken last year’s record. I already talked with the management of Central Park, next year they may make one even taller."

The record was announced at the opening ceremony of the "Now Jakarta the Christmas City" event.
 

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Worlds Tallest Santa Claus Sand Sculpture in India Record

Thousands of local people as well as tourists from both inside the country and outside had gathered on the beach to have a look at the colourful structure which is expected to figure in the coming edition of the Limca Book of Records.

Talking to Deccan Herald, Patnaik said it took him nearly 30 hours to create the 25 feet high sand Santa Claus. He was assisted by 15 of his students including seven girls from his Puri-based Golden Sand Art Institute. Six hundred tonnes of sand was used to create the structure.

The well known sand artist who had already won more than 35 international sand art championships including world titles said he had decided to dedicate his latest creation for world peace in this troubled time. “Peace is the only battle worth waging. We must give peace a chance”, he said.

Patnaik said, the sand Santa Claus created by him on the Puri beach was likely to be included in the Limca Book of Records as the record book authorities had given him their consent to create the sculpture. The Puri-based sand artist has already registered his name in the record book for creating the longest (100 feet) sand Santa Claus which was also created on the Puri beach during Christmas in 2006.

Meanwhile, security arrangments have been beefed up across the state in view of the Christmas celebrations on Thursday. Security has been tightened particularly in tribal dominated Kandhamal district in view of the recent Hindu-Chirstian communal riots in the district.

Security has been provided to major Churches across the state including those in Kandhamal and Bhubaneswar.

Union home minister P Chidambaram had two rounds of discussions with the chief minister Naveen Patnaik over telephone on Wednesday on secueity arrangements in the entire state particularly in Kandhamal.