Fatfinger!
Posted on 08/26/2010 12:32:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
The Japan Sumo Association is distributing about 60 iPads among all the 51 training stables and top association officials from this week to help improve communication.
"It seems rather easy to use," association chief Hanaregoma. "Sending emails was very easy."
...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.
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.
The sport's authorities faced loud public criticism for their clumsy efforts to investigate the scandals, in part due to insufficient sharing of information among sumo leaders.
With a reliance on faxes and phone calls, the sumo association has occasionally failed to distribute urgent messages to its officers and stable masters...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Can you remove the byline? There is no byline in the article and the field was still populated from another Telegraph article on this subject that I originally was going to post.
Fatfinger!
You don’t have to be a sumo wrestler to have fingers too fat to press buttons. They’re getting so small, anyone over 150lbs will have problems.
Telegraph blog more focused on the daily caloric intake of sumo wrestlers (20,000 calories a day).
It’s tough holding the ipad up to your ear though.
Suopmo reslerz rn’th the onely ones who fat-finger thingszv!!
Try 90 lbs and less than 5 feet tall.
I bet it was a sumo wrestler with a fat finger that caused the flash crash a while back.
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