Boeing’s decided to stick a little green monster in its long-awaited, recently-certified 787 Dreamliners. All 787s currently in production are being fitted with Android servers and touchscreens, which will be available in economy through first class.
https://gizmodo.com/at-last-the-boeing-787-dreamliner-is-now-certified-to-5835356
But not all of the screens will be touchscreens: some of them will be big enough and far enough away (business and first class) to require simple Kinect-style gesture system to control them. It’s in prototype right now, but that’s a pretty crazy and amazing and wonderful bit of the future ‘come real.
And since airlines won’t be able to choose to install other entertainment systems, we get the not a little ironic situation of Android being out in front of the push to defragment airline hardware to keep costs down. [Australian BT]
