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Fat Fingered Sumo Wrestlers Given iPads
The Japan Sumo Association is handing out about 60 iPads to training stables to help the wrestlers communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a regular mobile phone. From the article: "The iPad was chosen because the sumo association believed the device was big enough to cater to wrestler's fat fingers, unlike the smaller keys on mobile phones, according to reports."
...pencil?
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This sort of news makes me happy I gave up sys-administration on workfloors a long time ago. These don't look like the kind of people that take 'did you try the restore-cd?' for an answer.
Their fingers are big-boned, you insensitive clod!
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I'm sure those (usually / always quite horrible, so far) mobile phones for the elderly are also available in Japan...if anybody still wanted to make calls.
You know, those looking a bit like simple alphanumeric calculators, with enormous buttons.
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Only a matter of time until the wrestlers fashion these iPads into ninja stars when they learn of their uselessness for communication.
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Do`h!
"Cool, an iPad! I can finally make phone ca.... oh, wait..."
... are too fat. To order a special dialing wand, smash the iPad with your palm now.
I would have to say that this story has my favorite set of tags ever.
Well I suppose that's one way to keep your blood sugar down.
So that's who's been calling my cell number and then hanging up. Fat fingered clods.
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then the wrestler folds it up to fit it in his pocket.
Whaa? How do the millions of other fat people in the world manage to use cell phones?
Their hands aren't "fat" they're just large, I assure you I'm not an obese person but at 6'4" tall and 3' wide at the shoulders my hands are extra large and i wear a size 24 ring.
I cannot use any but the largest buttoned cell phone without a rubber pencil eraser.
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That one commercial where the sumo wrestler uses a voice-activated phone to order pizza.
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Did I read that right? Do they actually call the training facilities "Stables". Talk about adding insult to injury.
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With Skype, iPads are phones. My wife was able to call me from a hotel room from one after her phone had died. If you have the 3G iPad you could easily make calls from anywhere.
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You can make (and receive) calls just fine via Skype, or other voice clients over the 3G network.
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It appears these devices (iPhone/iPod touch) were design for small children and Carnies.
iPad is a UI game changer.
Cool, I didn't know the iPad could use the mobile network. But in that case - and I'm not simply bashing the iPad, personally I have nothing against it - it just makes it more stupid: if it already connects to the mobile network, why not make phone calls?
Sure you could put Skype or I guess now the new Google service, but strictly speaking it isn't a cell phone.
If I am on a cellular network, talking to another person on a phone, why is what I'm talking on not a phone? If it acts like a phone, I can use it like a phone, and the person on the other end can't tell anything - how is that not a phone?
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For what it's worth, I thought you had the only valid point and yet someone modded up the other guy!
You deserve that point.
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