Kearney was also showing a fine turn of pace and his initial charge in the 22nd minute set up a try-scoring chance for O'Driscoll but the Lions star knocked on with the line gaping.
The set-up is user friendly with an initial personalization feature via the Automatica website where the user can choose the podcasts and cloud services they want to associate to the device.
Private firms are expected to put up a large chunk of the initial cost and, in June, a public-private body known as the Joint Undertaking was set up to carry the project to completion.