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Random Stuff
Automatic Holy Water Dispenser To Fight Swine Flu
2:10PM Adam Frucci | Some churches in Italy are installing automatic holy water dispensers that, much like soap dispensers, squirt out an individual portion when you place your hand underneath it. To fight swine flu, of course! More »
Design
3:00AM Adam Frucci | Malls are never really all that interesting, architecturally speaking, here in America. But apparently that’s not the case in Italy, because this amazing Volcano-inspires structure makes me want to hang out at the mall all day long. More »
Volcano-Shaped Italian Mall Gives Malls A Good Name
3:00AM Adam Frucci | Malls are never really all that interesting, architecturally speaking, here in America. But apparently that’s not the case in Italy, because this amazing Volcano-inspires structure makes me want to hang out at the mall all day long. More »
Press
Italian Traffic Lights Rigged to Trap Motorists in the Red
12:15PM Gizmodo US Edition | An Italian programmer and over 100 other individuals, including public figures, policemen, and government officials, are currently being investigated for what seems to be a traffic-light-rigging conspiracy. More »
Weapons
Mobile Phone Gun Delivers Hot, Sneaky Death, Can’t Send Text Messages
5:00AM Adam Frucci | 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 It looks pretty good, phone-wise, if pretty outdated.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. More »
Online
Google Execs Face Trial in Italy For User Uploaded Video
7:20AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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. More »
Phones
Pay-As-You-Go iPhone Available in Europe
7:50PM Gizmodo US Edition | 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] More »
Toys
Artist Repairs Walls In Italy With Lego Bricks
3:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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. More »
Networks
Italy’s iPhone to Have Two Carriers: The End of Exclusivity?
12:50AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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] More »
Press
Italian
4:17AM Addy Dugdale | 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.
Italian Perv Professor Claims Ultrasound Can Hunt Out the G-Spot
4:17AM Addy Dugdale | 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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