Archive for August, 2007

Timo Kaukonen wins mens 9th Sauna World Championship

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

This years annual Sauna World Championship was held in Finland with 101 participants competing from 17 different countries. Temperatures reached a swealtering 110 C. The winner of the competition is the last person to leave the sauna without outside help.

Leila Kulin from Finland defended her championship victory for the second year running after Natalia Trifanava from Belarus was escorted from the sauna after 10 minutes and 31 seconds.

In the men’s final, six local Finnish men dominated the competition with Timo Kaukonen staying in the heat for a lengthy 12 minutes and 26 seconds to take victory.

Well done Tim and Leila.

Playing video games in the sauna?!

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

We’ll you can if you really want as it appear the Playstion 3 can stand the heat. Apparently the guys at PS3 Vault were curious about just how tough the PS3 is. They ran a PS3 for 108 hours straight in three separate operating conditions: a typical family room, the back of a freezer van, and a sauna.

Well apart from a slight burning smell whilst in the sauna, the box came out unscathed. I’m sure they ran the tests in a responsible and safe way - so kids - don’t try this at home.