Before he died, Steve Jobs was working on designing an enormous yacht, which was finally finished this weekend in Aalsmeer, Holland. The sleek white yacht, which now belongs to his family, is more than 70 meters in length and features seven 27-inch iMacs to handle the ship's navigation and controls.
It's fitting, then, that Dassault chose today to unveil its new Falcon 2000LXS, an aircraft that Steve Jobs would have approved of.
The Falcon 2000LXS comes equipped with a new Falcon Cabin HD+ cabin management system that's designed for professionals who need to work on the go. It has several high definition monitors with functions that can be controlled anywhere in the aircraft using an iPhone or an iPod touch.
There's a special application to allow passengers to access video playback, operate electronic window shades, and adjust both lighting and temperature.
A Rockwell Collins Skybox Wireless media service option is built in, allowing passengers access to a one terabyte onboard Apple iTunes library, allowing them to access television shows, movies, and music on demand.
The aircraft even has a mobile iPad application to allow passengers to monitor and track flight progress from their iDevice. This app includes an augmented panoramic view that displays the moving map in any direction the iPad is pointed, which is a neat idea.
Undoubtedly, this is the plane Steve Jobs might have used, if he were still alive and if he didn't already own a personal jet, the Gulstream V.
Don't expect to see too many of the Falcon 2000LXS planes out in the wild – this aircraft is expected to retail for more than 35 million dollars.
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