So we’ve seen Guinness World Record Apps come out before. But today, Guinness World Records announced that Guinness Wolrd Records: At Your Fingertips, the new updated and enhanced version of the app for the iPad, will include an even bigger and expansive database, and the best update of all, a chance to set your own Guinness World Record! In fact you have three chances!
This is awesome. You can carve your name, not only in video gaming, but the Guinness history, from the comfort of your own home!
The categories are as follows:
- Fastest 100m on an iPad – take on the world’s fastest man as your fingers go tip-to-toe with Usain ‘Lighting’ Bolt and attempt to break his 9.58-second record
- Fastest alphabet backwards – speed typing the alphabet forwards is one thing, but typing backwards will need a quick mind and even quicker fingers!
- Longest sequence memorised – a memory endurance test where the noises are inspired by real human sounds
Basically, Guinness will keep a Leaderboard for each challenge, and who makes it to the actual Guinness Book of World Records will be announced on May 1st, 2011.
As mentioned above, the app will come with a whole host of other features including:
- Delivers more than 150 photographs, 140 records and 20 stunning video clips under the topic areas Tallest, Strangest, Most, Deadliest, Fastest, Craziest and Most Expensive.
- Stunning CGI-video allowing users to explore the Bloodhound Supersonic – which is set to be the fastest car on earth – in a record preview before it has been constructed
- Rotating 360° image of the Aurumania Gold Bike Crystal Edition which is made of 24-carat gold and 600 Crystallized Swarovski elements
- Optimised for iOS 4.2 making the most of the iPad experience with dazzling full screen video and never-before-seen images
- 3-D effect parallax scrolling combined with interactive features showcasing the iPad’s touchscreen technology
- Hot-spot images with hidden facts and figures, plus exclusive interviews with famous record holders – including Lucky Diamond Rich, the world’s most tattooed man
