<story><title>New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/interspace-new-airplane-seat/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>puranjay</author><text>&amp;gt; This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie&lt;p&gt;This seems to be uniform across all surveillance technology. The purported convenience is so laughably minor that it&amp;#x27;s almost a parody.&lt;p&gt;Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of &lt;i&gt;playing some music&lt;/i&gt;? Is that all it takes?</text></item><item><author>oceliker</author><text>&amp;gt; The designers are considering adding facial recognition technology to the design.&lt;p&gt;Um, what&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The idea is that as the seat wing recognizes that you&amp;#x27;ve fallen asleep, it&amp;#x27;ll automatically turn off the movie playing on your IFE.&lt;p&gt;This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie? To me this sounds like they wanted to add facial recognition regardless, so they found a problem to their solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technofiend</author><text>&amp;gt;Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of playing some music? Is that all it takes?&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s my workaround: my smart speaker is tied to the lightswitch.  It&amp;#x27;s only on when I&amp;#x27;m in that room and if Google can somehow make use of the fact I stream a podcast or the local NPR station while bathing and shaving more power to them.</text></comment>
<story><title>New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/interspace-new-airplane-seat/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>puranjay</author><text>&amp;gt; This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie&lt;p&gt;This seems to be uniform across all surveillance technology. The purported convenience is so laughably minor that it&amp;#x27;s almost a parody.&lt;p&gt;Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of &lt;i&gt;playing some music&lt;/i&gt;? Is that all it takes?</text></item><item><author>oceliker</author><text>&amp;gt; The designers are considering adding facial recognition technology to the design.&lt;p&gt;Um, what&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The idea is that as the seat wing recognizes that you&amp;#x27;ve fallen asleep, it&amp;#x27;ll automatically turn off the movie playing on your IFE.&lt;p&gt;This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie? To me this sounds like they wanted to add facial recognition regardless, so they found a problem to their solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bamboozled</author><text>Don’t forget safety, were often told it’s to monitor bad guys or people breaking the law.&lt;p&gt;Australia is great at this, see the new “Phone use while driving cameras”, insane.</text></comment>