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Sumo Wrestlers Getting iPads, Too

Of all the sports associations getting iPads and deploying them for better communication between managers and athletes, I thought Japan’s Sumo Association would have been the last. I mean, sumo wrestlers aren’t exactly “techy” people. Sumo is a pretty traditional sport, bounded to old rules - can you imagine these oversized wrestlers sitting down and enjoying Robert Scoble’s tweets on Flipboard?

It turns out, anyway, that the Sumo Association bought 60 iPads and it’s distributing them to its 51 sumo stables “in an effort to improve communication”, Fortune reports. It seems like the iPad was choosen because of the size of its virtual keyboard, and because wrestlers aren’t good at pushing buttons on tiny cellphone keyboards.

The iPad: so magical it even does sumo now. Oh, but there’s not an app for that. Not yet.

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Federico is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, where he writes about Apple with a focus on apps, developers, iPad, and iOS productivity. He founded MacStories in April 2009 and has been writing about Apple since. Federico is also the co-host of AppStories, a weekly podcast exploring the world of apps, Unwind, a fun exploration of media and more, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about portable gaming and the handheld revolution.

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