Gizmodo: lufthansa

Giant Wraparound Screen Shows Air Traffic in Real-Time

Adam Frucci — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:40:00 EDT

This installation shows all of Lufthansa's flights at once, all projected in 3D on a 180-degree, 46-foot-wide screen. And damn is it cool.

As you can see in the video, it's all controllable in real-time. I'm not sure what they've got running this setup and these screens, but it's certainly powerful. And yeah, all the flight visualizations are awesome, I'd really love to get a game of Call of Duty rocking on this setup. [Fubiz via NotCot]

Lufthansa May Add Beds to Coach; Mile High Club to Add Thousands of Members

Adam Frucci — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:32:52 EDT

Sleeping while flying coach is damned near impossible, especially if you're over six feet tall. Sure, you could drop three times as much (or more) for one of those fancy business class seats that fold into a bed, but only suckers and jerkbags do that. If you're flying to Germany anytime soon, however, you might just get a bed with your coach ticket.

That's because German airline Lufthansa is adding a "bunkroom" full of triple bunk beds for their coach passengers. It would be in place specifically for overnight flights, so you wouldn't get to take a nap if you just wanted to fly from Frankfurt to Paris, but it could make the difference between arriving refreshed and arriving feeling like a zombie. Don't think that you'd get to bounce back and forth between your seat and your bed, however: you'd be booking a bed instead of a normal seat. Yeah, it's a serious commitment.

Lufthansa is considering this scheme in a study, so there are no dates as to when they'll implement it, if ever. [FlightGlobal via Spulch]

Biometric (In)Security

Noah R — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:11:47 EDT

Siemens and Lufthansa announced that they have successfully tested a fingerprint recognition security system for use at airport check-in. This comes just days after a British prison admitted that its fingerprint recognition security system was hacked by inmates. Feel safer now?

Eyes and fingers airport security [We Make Money Not Art]
Fingerprint-Lock Failure In a Prison [Schneier on Security]