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Weapons

Mobile Phone Gun Delivers Hot, Sneaky Death, Can't Send Text Messages

Posted by Adam Frucci at 5:00 AM on November 25, 2008

Italian police officers recently seized a tiny gun that's disguised as a mobile phone. It can hold four bullets and is powerful enough to kill somebody. It looks pretty good, phone-wise, if pretty outdated. It's stuff like this that makes me having to pour my water out at airport security seem even more idiotic. If I had one of these things, I could put it in the basket as I went through the metal detector, but you're not letting me bring in a bottle of water? Screw you, TSA. Hit the jump for another shot of this thing.


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Online

Google Execs Face Trial in Italy For User Uploaded Video

Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 7:20 AM on November 7, 2008

It's being reported today that four Google employees will be charged with "defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data" in Italy. This all stems from a video posted to Google Video in 2006, which showed four teens teasing and harassing a boy with down syndrome. Google removed the video within a day, but by that point it had already been seen 12,000 times.

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Phones

Pay-As-You-Go iPhone Available in Europe

Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 7:50 PM on June 12, 2008

Hot on the heels of the announcement that iPhone users in Spain and the UK will get their iPhone 3G for free zip nada gratis zilch if they sign up for a US$88-a-month plan, let's see what Vodafone Italy is planning for its countrymen. Pay-as-you-go fans will be able to buy an unsubsidised iPhone for either 499€ or 569€, depending on the model. Translated into buckaroonies, that's $823 or $938. What we want to know, however, is whether it will be unlocked or not. [Vodafone Italy]


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Toys

Artist Repairs Walls In Italy With Lego Bricks

Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 3:00 AM on June 8, 2008

In an art stunt that Jesus is sure to love, artist and lego enthusiast Jan Vormann went around the quiet little town of Bocchignano, Italy filling its decrepit walls with lego pieces.


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Networks

Italy's iPhone to Have Two Carriers: The End of Exclusivity?

Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 12:50 AM on May 8, 2008

Following Vodafone's announcement that it would be bringing the iPhone to ten more countries, including Italy, Telecom Italia issued its own short and sweet press release: "Telecom Italia announced today it has signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Italy later this year." So that's two separate companies laying claim to the Italian release of the iPhone, which sounds like the end of Apple's exclusivity deal to us. There are even rumours that a third Italian carrier is thinking about it: "evaluating the market opportunity," as Wind's website puts it. Dare we hope that this news also implies unlocked iPhones? [Gadget Lab]


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Press

Italian Perv Professor Claims Ultrasound Can Hunt Out the G-Spot

Posted by Addy Dugdale at 4:17 AM on February 22, 2008

A professor from the University of L'Aquila in Italy says has discovered a clue which may point the way to the fabled G-Spot—or at least prove that some lucky ladies have it, while others don't. Emmanuele Janini's findings (he scanned 20 women, 11 who experienced vaginal orgasms and nine who didn't, with a vaginal ultrasound) have set off a raging debate inside the wonderful world of lady-pleasure.


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Online

Italian Parliament Legalises P2P Music Downloads?

Posted by Haroon Malik at 3:00 PM on February 3, 2008

godfatherdownload.jpgIn what appears to be an embarrassing error, the Italian parliament may have accidentally legalised P2P music downloads. The new law allows Italians to legally share music over the internet, just as long as it is done for non-commercial gain and the music is degraded. The controversy arises from the definition of the word "degraded."


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