Sumo Wrestlers Find the iPad 'Finger-compatible'

Another Apple gimmick

You can replace the term sumo wrestler by 1/3 of the American population. Now I see why they sold so many iMagical devices!

Then there's the other 1/3 who simply confuse the iPad with food.

And then there's you two idiots who generalize an entire country.

It may be a generalization, but you can't deny that no other western nation has such a rampant obesity epedemic as the US.

actually Tommysch is accurate.

"Estimates of the number of obese American adults have been steadily expanding, from 19.4% in 1997, 24.5% in 2004[3] to 26.6% in 2007.[4]"

26.6% of american adults were obese in 2007. this is 2010. that number is probably at or near 30% at this point.

Walk into Walmart and you will see first hand that you are wrong. :s
I hate going to the store because of this when all it takes is one fat ### to block the isle.

Wait wait wait.. since when was 1/3 of a country an entire country?

Is there a 'stupid' filter for articles on Tom's guide, or do I just have to figure out how to block '[iPhone|iPod] [used to|grandmother|first time|911|saves]?

go go iTouch XL

My day was off to a rather mediocre start, until I read your post. My mood is now much improved. Thank you!

I have large hands. I have no problems texting on a normal phone, but I also find it easy to text on the iPad when in landscape mode with just my thumbs. Its super comfortable to do it in portrait mode though.

There's always text to speech and a broken stick to hit the enter key for you.

I'm going to assume that your info is from wikipedia, but in the future please cite your source(s). This helps to prevent BS from being posted as fact.

The thought of a sumo wrestler sending a fax amuses me. I can picture him threatening the machine with a few sumo stomps when it's not working, and when it still isn't working full-on charging it and knocking it through the wall. Then someone else walks by and they're like 'Damnit Suzuki, again?'

Maybe you guys are being a bit harsh? Completely off topic. If you think the US is overweight, instead of sitting on your ass complaining about it, maybe try and help spread the word? Try and help! I live in the US. I find it offensive even though it's true. Just my two cents.

The problem with this statement is by what the powers that be call "Obese." Technically i am Obese by the government standards. For my height and size, I am supposed to be 156 lbs to be in good shape. At 190 lbs I am said to be obese. In high school while wrestling, I was 157 lbs with 3% body fat. For me to be in "good shape" according to the studies that say 30% of america is fat, I need to reduce myself to under 3% body fat. This very unhealthy for anyone. Athletes get cut off from sports at this lvl of conditioning. I am 5'11", have a 32 inch waist and weigh around 200 depending on he day. You cannot grab anywhere near a handful of fat from my beer belly yet I too am obese.

"Maybe you guys are being a bit harsh? Completely off topic. If you think the US is overweight, instead of sitting on your ass complaining about it, maybe try and help spread the word? Try and help! I live in the US. I find it offensive even though it's true. Just my two cents."

You can't "spread the word" because you end up getting sued for "mental anguish and suffering" if you tell someone they're too fat.

hey, its cool, my body fat percentage is below 15% and i'll still find either device enterainable. oh, and I live in america, and proud to see im a lean citizen, and work pretty hard to keep it that way.

Using BMI, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been obese his entire adult life. Guess who uses BMI for determining obesity? It's all BS. Who cares anyway...

how would you go about helping? drive-by liposuction?

You right about the definition of "obese" or BMI. Many pro athlete are considered obese. But the fact remains that their a large(pun intended) weight problem in America. I am at the other end since I am a distance runner.

Do you really have to be such a freakin trolll?

Are you some fat-ass in denial or something? This is much more entertaining than discussing sumo wrestlers! Here are some credible sources:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/2009.2014

Yes, there are problems using BMI to determine obesity, but there's no denying this country has a 'huge' problem.

Yes, its called the lamorpa filter

Whoa, slow down there for a minute buddy. I wasn't refuting the claims at all. I'm not overweight and I'm not even American. I just want people to cite their sources.

Ah.... All Apple has to do is stick in Cell Phone guts into the iPad (Wonder if there is room?) and sell it as the iPhone4-XL!!

I wish they made cell phones the size of car phones from the 80s for my big paws, and touch screens a proportionate size.

I just think it's funny that the term 'athletes' was used for these guys.

Also having been to the US for a few weeks last year I noticed a big difference in the number of fat people around, and in Australia we're apparently number 2 behind you guys.

This. Brilliant!

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I always wondered why people bought iPads!
I now know why! Thank so so very much my kind sir.