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iBreviary—the daily prayer book for iPhone—will become a full Roman missal for iPad, allowing priests to celebrate mass in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. The Vatican-sanctioned application, created Padre Paolo Padrini, includes: • Texts of the Mass • The readings of the Mass • The breviary • The stories of the saints • The…
They may not have bones to break, but all toys have something going on underneath those plastic shells of theirs. Scan Toys, an exhibition of toy x-rays at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, lets you see their guts. OK, their insides aren’t quite as complex as a plane’s, or a Nintendo’s, or even…
Navigon—long one of our preferred navigation apps—is showing off how their latest update will take advantage of iPhone 4 multitasking. Sure, it’ll be fun to have Pandora on while I browse, but this I can actually use. It’s not a huge revelation as to what the Navigon app will do on iPhone 4; basically, you…
What a journey: From a sea of entries, to a select group of six, to the best of the best, your winner of the Canon EOS 7D Video Contest has been determined. Drum roll, please! The winner is your very own Kate Lee, with her super Super Mario Bros. stop-motion masterpiece! Witness the brilliance: Entry…
Click to viewGive back. Appreciate community. Raise your son to become an extraordinarily wealthy tech scion/genius/philanthropist. Besides that last one, these are the messages Bill Gates Sr. had for the 2010 graduating class of University of Washington, his alma mater. His speech shows him to be a wise and caring man, and it’s easy to…
Microsoft’s Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360 seems neat, if possibly too expensive. But all of the games are so predictable! Let’s come up with some less predictable titles, shall we? Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Kinect Games in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs under 800k…
You recognize the convenience of Google’s cloud-based apps but remain a command line devotee. Thankfully, Google’s new command line tool lets you edit Google Docs, upload photos to Picasa and post to Blogger while maintaining your geek cred. [Google]
Every self respecting American has three major duties: Pay taxes, Vote, and take advantage of Free Tacos! My personalized list is read Gizmodo, help disasters, and you guessed it: Tacos. What would be ranked highly on your list? (Comments) Top Deals: • Nintendo Wii Console w/ Wii Resort + Wii Fit Plus w/ Balance Board…
Mad Catz’s partnering with Activision to make Black Ops PrecisionAIM controllers for the next Call of Duty game, meaning these $50 wireless peripherals are probably the best way to experience things. They look very similar to the official Xbox/PS3 controllers, but differ in that they have extra buttons on the back for extended control. There…
If you buy a $3,000-plus solar power system from Bland Solar, they’ll throw in a gun for free. Hilariously promotional juxtaposition? Sure! But it also makes perfect sense. See, here’s how I figure it. When the grid collapses and traditional fuel sources have been exhausted—sometime around 2012, say—you’re going to need two things: solar power…
I’m guessing that 95% of the Giz readership will find this flowchart helpful or offensive. In either case, I regret nothing! [I Love Charts via Chartporn]
Remember when you diligently used AT&T’s “Mark the Spot” iPhone app to pinpoint where and how exactly their service sucked? Good work! Now they’re texting people saying they’re ramping up capacity in some of those areas. [Thanks Dave]
I’m Spanish. I’ve been watching soccer—football—all my life, and I always wondered why the hell don’t they use technology to solve one of the biggest problems of this game: Referees making bad calls. Like in today’s USA-Slovenia game. The fact is that, no matter how many times I watch that Maurice Edu’s goal, referee Koman…
Verizon has beaten this drum before, but it seems that AT&T’s move to tiered data has inspired them to cut unlimited plans as soon as this year. It’s time to say goodbye to the all-you-can-download buffet. The comments this time came from CFO John Killian, who came out more explicitly than past Verizon execs in…
Screwing a Flip camera into a baseball cap? Is that a strange, socially awkward thing to do? No way! Just look at these satisfied customers! Moms Love It! Fisherman Love It! Marksmen Love It! Guys Staring Out Into the Distance Love It! Hatcams, perfectly normal! $30. [Hatcams via OhGizmo! via The Gadgeteer]
A new bill in the US Senate would, if passed, create a “kill switch,” allowing for the government to shut down or control parts of the internet. There’s no way this can go wrong! The legislation, sponsored by human-skinned lizard Joe Lieberman, is formally called the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or PCNAA.…
Genius Japanese violinist Teppei Okada plays the music track and sound effects of Super Mario Bros. Now I’m hoping that the next Nintendo console will include a violinist built-in. After all, they are running out of gimmicks pretty quick. [Nikkovideo]
This newly announced white HTC Evo goes on sale starting July 11 at Best Buy (pre-orders begin today). But you know what? HTC could do better if they just showed us the masculinity going on under the hood: That’s right, the Evo has a sports car red interior, as HTC traditionally hides the best parts…
Buried below the Nintendo 3DS’s eye-popping screen is another impressive upgrade with nearly equal implications for the future of the console: Completely re-architected Wi-Fi powers. Nintendo, unfortunately, is being coy about the precise specifications of the wireless component—preferring it remain a black box of magic, a la Apple—but based on what they are saying of…
An unadvertised improvement in the new Mac Mini over other Mac products? SDXC card support, the newest SD specification that’s expandable to 2TB and features higher bus speeds. Not a big deal, but some dude who just barely talked himself into buying a new Mac Mini is probably fist-pumping like a mad man all the…
