And the Pope chooses Android to light his Xmas tree

December 08, 2011 11:52

Pope Benedict XVI touched a Sony tablet Wednesday, lighting "the biggest Christmas tree in the world." Wait, the Pope didn't go with the iPad?

The "tree" is actually a 2,132-foot-high lighting display on a Mount Ingino above the Italian town of Gubbio, and as you can see in the above video -- by msnbc.com's Dara Brown -- the Pope did the "lighting" by pressing a virtual button on the tablet from his home, 130 miles away.

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