iPad passport case: unusual uses for Apple product The iPad was chosen due to the belief that the bigger device would be easier to use as the sumo association attempted to amend its ways following scandals over wrestlers" ties with gangsters, illegal gambling and match fixing. The sport had received criticism for clumsy efforts to investigate the scandals, blaming in part poor communication between the association and stable masters. An exclusive Australian restaurant decided last year to replace paper menus with the interactive tablet. Customers of Mundo Global Tapas restaurant in Sydney were provided iPads to browse menu selections and order food, access photographs of every dish and notify chefs of how they would like their food cooked. Following suit, US chain announced plans to place 100 iPads in each of their new to 2011, Stacked: Food Well Built restaurants. The co-founders believe diners will use them to design their own burgers, pizzas and salads, and if they want, use the iPads to pay for meals. Pope Benedict XVI took to his iPad on June 28 last year to praise the Vatican's new online news portal www.news.va, using Twitter to announce the launch. The news was the latest in a series of moves by the Pope to engage with modern technology. The Pope with his iPad in his studio at the Vatican City A hospital in Florida developed a system for wireless real-time monitoring and reprogramming of cardiac devices, including pacemakers and defibrillators, using an iPad. The technology, developed by doctors at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, allows medical experts to remotely access information on a patient. A nurse can then follow the doctor's instructions for adjusting the cardiac device's settings using a touchscreen laptop called a remote-K-viewer.Martin Kloosterman, the hospital's Electrophysiology Laboratory director and Chief of the Cardiology, said the new system would save valuable time and money. Previously, the machine had to be operated by a representative of the cardiac device programmer company while the new system requires little experience to operate. It has been reported that doctors are increasingly using iPads to aid them in consultations, update online patient charts and monitor symptoms over time. Pilots at one of the world's biggest airlines were given the go ahead to navigate using iPads instead of paper charts and manuals. Use of the iPads will be restricted to two pilots aboard the flight, with all network connection switched off. Passengers will still be prohibited from using electronic equipment during takeoff and landing. American Airlines is not the first to switch to paperless flying; United Airlines kitted its pilots out with 11,000 iPads in August, 2011 and Alaska Airways switched to iPad navigation in May.