Guinness World Records confirmed in March 2011 that the Microsoft Kinect was ‘fastest-selling consumer electronic device‘ to date. Selling more than 10 million Kinect sensor in a 60 day period since its launch in 4th November 2010.

The sales figures outstrip those of Apple’s iPhone and iPad during a 60 day period since launch. Guinness World Records said that Microsoft sold eight million devices between 4th November 2010 and 3rd January 2011 at an average rate of 133,333 a day. The Kinect is an infrared camera add-on for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 games console, although diffrent to iPhones and iPads, such figures puts it in a league occupied by a small range of other successful electronic devices including Apples iPhone, iPad and the BlackBerry smart phone

The original iPhone was released in June 2007 and the latest iPhone 4 was released in June 2010, reports suggest that Apple has sold over 89 million units of these smart phones to date. (89,974,000 to be exact) according to Wikipedia. Apple sold one million iPhones in 74 days.

The first version of the iPad was released on April 2010 and took 28 days to sell one million devices and sold over 3 million devices in 80 days, leading to 15 million iPads being sold up to January 2011. With the iPad 2 just released Apple have released this version to 10,000 retail outlets compared to 221 Apple Stores and 1,100 Best Buy Stores for the original iPad launch (in the US). The iPad 2 sold out in major U.S. cities within hours, with sales figures of around 500,000 within the first three days, the iPad 2 looks set to be another fast selling consumer electronic device. Since launching the BlackBerry phone in 2002 (the pager system had been released in 1999), BlackBerry have reportedly sold approximately 100 million handsets between 2002 and June 2010.