Udupi: Armaan, a B.Tech student of Manipal Institute of Technology(MIT) made an attempt to enter the Guinness World Record, by creating the world’s longest selfie stick here on Monday.
The demonstration of his newly created selfie stick measuring 10.39 metres, which is said to be the longest in the world, was held here at the MIT grounds.
Armaan, son of Mohmed Soorinje and Rehana from Mangaluru, is a student of sixth semester (B.Tech.) of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at MIT.
Reportedly, Armaan had sent an application to the Guinness World Records few months ago for creating a new record in longest selfie stick. As the application was accepted, he started working on it. He has made as many as 8 trials before creating the stick measuring 10.39 metres.
The demonstration which will be sent for the approval was photographed and video-graphed at the presence of six witnesses – S.J. Kumaraswamy, Deputy Superintendent of Police, G.K. Prabhu, Director of MIT, B.H.V. Pai, Joint Director, Narayan Shenoy, Associate Director, B.K. Singh, Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and Indrali Jayakar Shetty, General Manager of Badagabettu Credit Cooperative Society Ltd.
The present Guinness World Record holder for the world’s longest stick is Ben Stiller (USA) for his selfie stick which measured 8.56 metres.
