World's Most Extreme Gadgets

By Krissy Rushing
February 20th, 2009

You’ve no doubt heard the claims from electronics manufacturers stating the world’s first this, the world’s largest that, the world’s smallest the other. Economic turmoil has only heated up this race to provide innovative products, and industry firsts. Here, we bring you 10 world’s firsts that are bigger, thinner, smaller, lighter, and faster than the competition.

Longest Built-in Zoom Camera

Consumers these days are demanding longer zoom lenses built into their digital cameras, hence the category of super-zoom cameras that are larger than your average digicam, but have a 10x zoom or greater. The “world’s longest” zoom lens honors go to Olympus, with its 12-megapixel SP-590UZ ($450), which has a 26x optical zoom lens! It’s excellent for getting close-up details on objects far away.

Olympus SP-590UZ

Smallest Projector/First Projector Phone

While we can’t play referee to which micro-projector/phone ...

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