by Shashank Nigam | May 13th, 2010
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Yesterday, Mary Kirby of the RunwayGirl fame told me on Twitter that our previous discussions on iPad being used as an in-flight entertainment system are being realized rather soon. Around the same time, I received a guest post about the future of personal wireless IFEs in airplanes. And couldn’t help post it here immediately.
This guest post is written by Toms Purgailis, who is a student from Riga, Latvia interested in all modes of transport and synergies between transport and land use. He runs blog www.rigmobility.blogspot.com about transport and planning issues in the Baltic states.
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This post is inspired by Shashank’s Can the Apple iPad revolutionize the way airlines do business? and aims to take a step further. I want to share my ideas how to benefit from passenger’s devices and their content, save weight and cash.
A big part of travelers bring their laptops and smart-phones with them on-board for ground activities but use airline’s provided in-flight entertainment system (IFE) to kill the time during flight. No-brainer that such a system is not the most effective as hundreds of gadgets just lay somewhere in bags during the flight.
A simple (and very effective) solution would be to …
