據BBC報道，日前日本有關組織向相撲選手們分發了蘋果iPad，以解決他們手指太粗，沒法用普通手機進行交流的問題。日本相撲協會從本周起開始向該國的51個相撲俱樂部和協會高級官員分發了60個iPad，以改善他們彼此間的溝通交流狀況。相撲協會主席放駒說：“感覺挺好用的，發電子郵件很方便。”
Japanese sumo wrestlers have been given iPads to communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a standard mobile phone。
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 62-year-old former wrestler admitted that while he can read incoming text messages on his mobile phone, he does not know how to write replies and does not usually use a computer。
But "time flies if you play with this", he said of the Apple gadget。更多信息請訪問：http://www.24en.com/
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。
"If we place this (iPad) in all the stables, we should be able to contact them anytime," the association's spokesman Nishonoseki has said。
