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Champion skateboarder Bob Burnquist is taking extreme skateboarding to a new level on the Mega Ramp in his backyard. (Producers: Emily B. Hager and Peter Rader)
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This is the surface of an interactive, 10 meter long bar. Every glass, cup, cellphone, car key, businesscard or even fingers will be recognized. www.i-bar.ch
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San Alfonso del Mar,Chile--A one kilometre long swimming pool in Chile has set the world record for the world's largest outdoor swimming pool.Details here:
http://www.worldr ecordsacademy.org/bi ggest/largest_swimmi ng_pool_world_record _set_by_San_Alfonso_ pool_70920.htm
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A beach ball that was dropped and bounced around on Elm Street in downtown Dallas on Sunday.
It was all part of Carnival Cruise Lines' attempt to break a record for the world's largest beach ball.
According to Guiness the ball needed to be at least 10 meters in diameter and had to be made of real beach ball material.
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This is video from the summer of 2005 at the Ivan Bright famn near Hope, Arkansas. Two watermelons are picked from the field. The first ends up on the ground in pieces. The second weighs in as the largest watermelon in the world.
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The Naha Tsunahiki is the world's largest annual Tug-Of-War. Every October, the residents of Naha pit the eastern half of the city versus the western half. It is quite a spectacle.
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The European Southern Observatory used the NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment with multicore processors to develop a real-time control system and prove that COTS technology can control the optics in the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which is currently in the design and prototyping phases.