Plane that Feels like “A Big Happy iPod”
08.20.07 - 12:19pm
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The new Virgin America Airlines is up and flying with a new take on air travel; cheap flights that actually offer great service and utmost luxury.
In fact not only does it offer, of course, iPod connections but even feels like an iPod. Boing Boing’s Xeni Jargen said that the purple-and-pink mood lighting along with the white seat backs complete with individual TV screens made the interior of the plane “like a big happy iPod”
The new U.S. carrier is creating a new wave of airline travel which is “cool” and “upscale” as along with its mood lighting, which shifts between 12 different colors depending on the time of day, the plane also offer a barrage of other amenities.
Satellite television at every seat on 9″ touch screens embedded into black leather seats whose white backs are encased in an iPod-like glossy plastis is the main focus. Each touch-sensitive screen is paired with a two-sided wired remote in the armrest. On one side of the remote are standard volume, channel, forward and back controls; on the other side is a QWERTY keyboard.
