By: Eric Watson | 2010-10-07 | Reference & Education Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest trade fair for books, is held annually in mid-October at the Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany. On Wednesday October 6th, visitors to the fair had the opportunity to admire the world’s largest book. The two-by-three-meter Atlas priced at $100,000 was published by Australian publisher Gordon Cheers. It contains maps of continents and sharp images of famous landscapes. With 128 pages, this page has the same size with the Klencke Atlas which was produced in 1660 as a gift for Charles II of England. Up to now, he has sold two volumes to museums in the United Arab Emirates and felt confident of selling all the rest. The Frankfurt Book Fair will last until this Sunday. read more
By: Joe Hill | 2011-08-04 | Printing PROLAB Digital Imaging provides retail store graphics for retailers with one location to hundreds nationwide. PROLAB produces in house all of the graphics, signage, pop displays, cash wraps, posters, wall murals, backlit duratrans, and window decals and banners used throughout retail stores. read more
By: Stuart Max | 2010-07-22 | Hardware A flatbed scanner is one of the four types of document scanners which allows paper documents or photos be converted into digital form. With large and flat feature, it has a lid which opens on a hinge. The user will lift the lid and places the scanned document on the glass scanning bed, face down.Although, scanning documents uses light or an image sensor, the way it work as a copier. read more
By: isabella pospisil | 2011-11-01 | Automotive Many towing services offer flatbed towing to transport several cars in one region to their destinations. Flatbed towing involves using a specialized truck with a flat bed in the rear. read more
By: Paige Taylor | 2011-06-09 | Destinations Istana Nurul Iman has recently surpassed the Buckingham Palace, Royal Palace of Madrid, Stockholm Palace and The Forbidden City to become the “world's largest palace” in the world by the Guinness World Record. read more
By: Jolie Crussel | 2011-08-08 | Business A number of successful businesses around the world are family-owned or family-operated enterprises. Initially, may be they are small stores in a small town, but until now, these companies are truly the largest family businesses globally including Bechtel., Mars, Meijer, SC Johnson & Son and so on. read more
By: Sky Light | 2011-06-13 | Boats The ships “Allure of the Seas,” “Oasis of the Seas,” “Freedom of the Seas,” “Liberty of the Seas,” “Independence of the Seas,” “Queen Marry 2,” and “Norwegian Epic” etc…are named as the world’s largest cruise ships ever. read more
By: Jolie Crussel | 2011-09-05 | Business There are more than 40,000 producing oil fields found around the world, though most of them are small. There are estimated just 100 to 125 giant or supergiant oil deposits supplying around 50% of the world’s oil. read more
By: Taylor Paige | 2010-05-28 | Destinations The Kimberley Diamond Mine also known as the Big Hole is considered the largest hand-dug hole in the world. After the first diamond was found in this mine in the 19th century, there were 50,000 workers rushed to here, looking forward to change their life thanks to diamonds. Workers who worked tirelessly dug up to 2.720kg diamonds. Surprisingly, these miners did not use any advanced machines but only used human power and very simple tools such as hoes and shovels. Big Hole has a diameter of about 463m and 215m deep. This means that the volume of soil that the workers had dug and moved was extremely enormous. It was estimated that the miners dug and moved about 22 million tons of rocks, of course without machine aid. read more
By: DZ Perez | 2011-01-13 | Economics Garbage is considered to be the largest gold mine in the world for it offers unlimited financial opportunities. Nowadays garbage is a multi-billion industry worldwide. Since it is found everywhere, the opportunity in this industry is huge. read more
By: Jeremy Samson | 2010-08-17 | Electronics Electronics, Science & Technology, Business News In order to facilitate the changing usage patterns of its imageFORMULA series of scanners, Canon, the world leader in imaging technology, has responded with an innovative solution, the imageFORMULA Flatbed Scanner Unit 101. The new flatbed document scanner is compatible with key Canon imageFORMULA devices via a USB connection and gives users the ability to scan-in irregular sized documents that wouldn’t be suitable for use with an automatic document feeder. With no frills ergonomic design and the very fastest precision scanning speeds incorporated, the new Unit 101 provides existing imageFORMU... read more
By: Jeremy Winters | 2011-06-25 | Hardware While in this day and age most of what we do is digitized, there is still a great use for paper documents seeing as how it is much easier to tamper with something which is on your computer. read more
By: Razvan Jr | 2011-01-05 | Board games The article offers a brief review of "Life – The Great Challenge", which holds the record for the largest jigsaw puzzle in the world. read more
By: Sky Light | 2011-06-17 | Vehicles A series of Russian military aircrafts, from the simplest to the most modern one, are gathered in the Central Air Force Museum at Monino city, Russia making the museum one of the world's largest aircraft museum. read more