Sumo Wrestlers are given iPads as they are too fat for mobiles
Posted on | August 30, 2010 | No Comments
Japanese sumo wrestlers have been given iPads to communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a standard mobile phone reports the Telegraph.
It is amazing to see how people find out innovative and interesting ways to use Apple’s products.
The Japan Sumo Association is distributing 61 iPads amongst it’s 51 wrestlers and officials. They say that doing so will help them communicate as they are too fat fingered for standard mobile phones or smart phones.
Sumo officials decided to go digital and buy iPads as the ancient sport attempts to mend its ways after scandals over wrestlers’ ties with gangsters and illegal gambling, match-fixing and brutal hazing of apprentices.
With a reliance on faxes and phone calls, the sumo association has occasionally failed to distribute urgent messages to its officers and stable masters.
Steve Jobs might get a bear hug from these happy sumo wrestlers.
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