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Fat Fingered Sumo Wrestlers Given iPads

Posted by samzenpus on from the 100-finger-slap dept.

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."

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  1. Re:iPads are not phones by DarthVain · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think what the parent is trying to say that it isn't a "Phone".

    Sure you could put Skype or I guess now the new Google service, but strictly speaking it isn't a cell phone.

  2. Re:iPads are not phones by saboola · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know, on top of all the basics you mentioned, I do a lot of Remote Desktop/VNC/SSH from my iPad. Works great. The device is hardly useless.

  3. Re:Did I read that right by Ogive17 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep, they are called stables. And the "rookies" have to wipe the asses of the "vets" since they are usually too fat to reach around themselves.

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    "Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
  4. Re:Why not? by Carewolf · · Score: 2, Informative

    how is that not a phone?

    Because it lacks the phone parts! It isn't an enlarged iPhone. It is a huge iTouch, it doesn't have the phone hard- or software.