World’s largest wearable cake dress

A Swiss baker earned a Guinness World Record at a wedding fair by creating the world’s largest wearable dress made out of cake.

Guinness World Records annou­nced Natasha Coline Kim fah Lee Fokas of the SweetyCakes GmbH bakery, created the dress for the Swiss Wedding World expo in Bern.

The dress, which weighs 289 pounds and 13 ounces, was certified as the world’s largest wearable cake dress (supported) by the record-keeping organisation.

Guinness World Records posted a video to YouTube showing the cake being sliced while still being worn by a model at the fair.

Han Solo’s original blaster sold for $1,057,500

Guinness World Records confirmed that Han Solo’s blaster from the original Star Wars trilogy became the most expensive prop gun sold at auction, when it fetched a price of $1,057,500.

The blaster, known officially in Star Wars lore as a BlasTech DL-44 Heavy Blaster, was one of three wielded by actor Harrison Ford during the filming of 1977’s Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

The blaster is the only one to survive today.

The prop was modelled after a German-made Mauser C96, dating to World War I, and utilised parts from a World War II-era MG81 machine gun, as well as an early 20th-century Hensoldt-Wetzlar rifle scope.

Restaurant offers one pot menu cooked by robotic chef

A robotic chef at a Croatian restaurant is able to rustle up about 70 different one pot meals. The BOTS&POTS Sci-Food bistro, in Zagreb, claims to be the world’s only restaurant where ready-to-eat meals in a pot are made by robotic cookers with no human involvement, other than loading the devices with fresh ingredients.

The devices add oil and seasoning according to digital recipes made by a human chef. In other similar restaurants, robots stir and fry chips and burgers, make pizzas or serve and deliver meals, but “there is no robot which makes a one pot meal from fresh food,” according to restaurant co-owner Hrvoje Bujas.

It took seven years for Bujas’ partners to turn an idea into reality and open the restaurant last year, after investing over 1 million euros ($1.07 million).

Egypt opens 4,000-year-old tomb

Egypt has restored, documented and opened to tourists the Middle Kingdom tomb of Meru, the oldest site accessible to the public on Luxor’s West Bank, home to some of its most spectacular Pharaonic monuments, including the Valley of the Kings.

Meru was a high-ranking official at the court of the 11th Dynasty King Mentuhotep II, who reigned until 2004 BC and who, like Meru, was buried at the necropolis of North Asasif.

Meru’s rock-hewn tomb was restored by the Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw and Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. This is the first site from such an early period in Western Thebes to be made accessible to visitors. Meru’s tomb had been known since at least the mid-19th century, according to the Polish Egyptian archaeological mission.

Published in Dawn, Young World, February 25th, 2023