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."

Oh boy

[santax]

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.

Re:Uh...

[snowraver1]

No, they need a dialing wand. You can order one my mashing the keypad.

The sumo wrestlers' reaction

[borfast]

"Cool, an iPad! I can finally make phone ca.... oh, wait..."