Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Pilot Cam

While sitting on another overseas flight staring at the flight map in front of me on an American Airlines 777, I thought of what I really want to see/stare at for 8 plus hours. In stead, I was being presented the normal set of screens. The normal screens consist of a map with your route traced out, your air speed, altitude, out side temperature, local time at your current location, the time where you came from and the time of the place you are going. There are a few more screens but that's about it.

What I would really like to see is the view the pilots are getting. How difficult would it be to install a camera that would give us a birds eye view of what the pilot are seeing and put that on a channel. Call it a pilot cam or plane cam. My guess is out of all the other channels, this one would be the most watched. In addition, how about a camera in the tail to show us where we have been. I think on a nice sunny day it would be very entertaining just to watch the jet stream forming being the plane.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Coffee Cubes

I like iced coffee. I like both Starbucks and McDonald's version of iced coffee. What I don't like is the ice in the iced coffee is just water. What I want is for the ice to be frozen coffee and not frozen water. That way with the ice melts, the coffee is not diluted. And I would expect to pay a bit more for my iced coffee with coffee cubes instead of iced cubes.

Friday, June 1, 2007

2 months salary?

I heard an interesting thing today. I've always heard that a man should spend around 2 months salary on a wedding/engagement ring. Well, it turns out that this is only 1 months salary in the UK. And it is 3 months salary in Japan. Hmmm.... This couldn't have anything to do with marketing, could it?