Monday, September 13, 2010 (1:01 AM)
Modu founder Dov Moran displays the Modu, a a tiny cell phone that pops into interchangeable "jackets" to become a bigger, smarter phone, or into other gadgets
to connect them to the Internet, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008. The company, an Israeli start-up,
plans to launch the phone on Oct. 1 with Telecom Italia SpA in Italy, OAA Vimpel Communications in Russia and Cellcom Israel Ltd.
Trio of women play the world's smallest grand piano at the headquarters of its creator Sega Toys Co. in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006.
The one-sixth scale electric grand piano equipped with a keyboard with mere 4-millimeter (0.16-inch) wide 88 keys and with an auto-playing function
weighs only 2.5-kilogram (5.5 lb). The "grand piano" is put on the domestic market from April 1, 2007 at 47,000 yen ($408).
In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2010, Edward Nino Hernandez, 24, poses for a portrait as he holds the Guinness World Record Book 2011 during an interview
with Associated Press in Bogota, Colombia. Nino is recognized as the world's shortest man in the new Guinness World Records 2011.
Dr. Rachel Wagner watches as her three day old pinto stallion named Einstein meets a horse named Play My Heart in Barnstead, N.H., Sunday, April 25,2010.
The diminutive horse born in New Hampshire could lay claim to the world record for lightweight foal.
The pinto stallion named Einstein weighed just 6 pounds and measured 14 inches in height
when he was born Friday in Barnstead, N.H. Those proportions fit a human baby
just about right but are downright tiny for horse, even a miniature breed like Einstein.
Cathie Jung of Mystic, Conn., foreground, speaks with Laura Ricker, right, and Clarina Bezzola about wearing corsets during the
Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show exhibition and sale Friday, Jan 31, 2003 in New York.
Jung is the holder of the Guinness Book of World Records, smallest waisted living person, 15 inches.
A prototype of the world's smallest car, the Naudal, is seen in front of a French two horse-powered car,
la Deux Chevaux, (2CV) in Quimper, Brittany last December 1996. The two-seater Naudal, at 2.17 meters (yards) long, is smaller than the Austin Mini at 3.05 meters (yards) which has been considered by
the Guiness Book of Records as the smallest car. Frenchman Bernard Lannaud designed
the car as a solution to traffic jam problems and hopes to find a sponsor soon to build the car.
In this photo released by Carnol, Switzerland and Raffles Museum, undate photo shows
the world's smallest fish on record in an acidic peat swamp in Indonesia, a member of
the carp family which has a see-through body and a head that is unprotected by
a skeleton, researchers said Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006.
In this Oct. 2006 photo provided by Baptist Hospital, a healthcare worker holds Amillia Sonja Taylor.
Taylor was just 9.5 inches (24.13 centimeters) long and weighed less than 10 ounces (284 grams) when
she was born Oct. 24. She was delivered after just under 22 weeks of pregnancy; full-term births
come after 37 to 40 weeks. Parents of Amillia got to take her home Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007,
for the first time since she was delivered last fall.
A tarsier (Tarsius Syrichta) rests in the palm of its caretaker while being fed June 23, 1997 in a
farm in Bohol province, 396 miles (640 kms) south of Manila, Philippines. The tarsier is the
smallest primates in the world and considered as an endangered species.
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