“The sumo association said it will hand out iPads to Japan’s 51 ‘stables,’ or the clubs the wrestlers belong to, with the aim of improving communication among the roly-poly grapplers after some in the past had missed information sent by fax or telephone,” Kubota reports.
Kubota reports, “The iPad tablet PC, which starts at 48,800 yen ($570) in Japan, was likely chosen because many stablemasters do not use computers and wrestlers are not good at punching in messages on their mobile phones with their big hands, Jiji news agency said.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If this headline doesn’t bring back the sanitary napkin jokes, nothing will.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader ” iWill” for the heads up.]
Giant iPod Touch?
… or they can use this phone, while at stable:
Phone
Unfortunately, only a landline phone.
I nearly choked on my coffee when I read “roly-poly grapplers”. That’s what I needed on a slow Tuesday morning.
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Steve Ballmer is kicking his sales department now. If they had just made a bigger Zune, Microsoft could have had at least this one market. A FatZune could have been sumo approved!
Caught in a headlock?
There’s an app for that.
“Your fingers are to fat to dial. Please hit the keypad with the palm of you hand to connect to an operator!” — The Simpsons.
Thanks to the Find My iPhone/iPad feature they’ll be able to locate it when it gets lost in a fat roll.
“Beep. Beep. Beep. Bee…Doo. Doo. Doo.
The fingers you have used to dial, are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand. Please mash the keypad, with your palm. Now.”
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elgarak gets 1/2 a point for quickness. I get the other for completeness.
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But will there be an iPad “Dosukoi!” app?