Want privacy on your flight? Try to head sling. Yes, there is a photo.

[kpete]

The "B-Tourist Slip" is a ring of elastic fabric that folds easily into your luggage. Once on the plane, whip it out to slip one end over the seat headrest in front and another over your own, creating a 360 wall of cloth that you can rest your weary noggin against. Folds in the fabric accommodate personal items like phones and glasses, and sliding rings lets you adjust the personal cave to your preferred width.

http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/05/is-this-the-way-to-find-privacy-on-economy-flights/371094/

[FSogol]

1. If a sling went down to the crotch area, passengers could watch porn too.

[maggiesfarmer]

22. like this?

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[Aerows]

28. OMG!

I just laughed so hard I scared the cat!

[AngryAmish]

32. oh, you!!!

[underpants]

2. Looks like Fox News believers at home

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Occasional self-headbutting into the rear of the headrest in front of you may occur.

We're still in beta test, folks.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. you do that shit in the aisle seat

and i'm in the window, you've just guaranteed that i am going to need to get out of my seat 45 times in a 2 hour flight...

sP

[GeorgeGist]

5. Be sure to contact airline .ahead of time ...

so that they can install seats that will accommodate your Sling.

[TlalocW]

6. Eh, if you want the person next to to leave you alone

Chat him or her up a little and then say, "Oh, I should warn you - sometimes I fall asleep with my eyes open. It looks like I'm awake, but I'm really sleeping. It's a rare hereditary thing. So if I don't respond to your saying something, don't panic."

So about 20 minutes in, "fall asleep," facing forward. Then after another 5 minutes toss and turn a little bit so you're looking right at the face of your neighbor, with your eyes open, a slackjaw expression, and breathing like you're asleep. Do this for another 10-15 minutes then toss and turn again and "wake up."

Your neighbor won't want anything to do with you.

TlalocW

[postulater]

7. Not a good idea.

Having your head pulled forward like that will activate the posterior muscles and after fifteen minutes or so will start to take out the normal lordosis of your spine. Want a headache? Here you go.

[Whisp]

9. I don't think it wraps around your head, but the seat head rest

so there would be no stress or pulling.

[postulater]

18. That could be. It looks like a weird headrest.

Plane seats are horrible for posture. No lumbar support and they push your head forward basically into a fetal curve. That is an unstable weak posture for the spine and will load both the lumbar discs and reduce the cervical lordosis even without the resistance of the wrappy thingy.

Best off to just take two pillows, roll each into a cylinder and put them into the lordoses of the neck and lower back. That supports the natural curves of the spine and will protect you and keep you comfortable.

[pinboy3niner]

10. 'Lordosis of the Slings' has a nice ring to it. :) nt

[msanthrope]

11. One does not simply make a pun using 'Lordosis.' Well played, sir....

Well played.

[Blue Owl]

17. oh, Lord!

[postulater]

19. Ouch!

[Ruby the Liberal]

27. Hahaha!

That made my day, my friend. Brilliant.

[Aerows]

30. Suddenly

I feel the urge to dial this up to 11 and watch "This is Spinal Tap".

[Egnever]

8. If you need that on a flight

I would suggest you have other issues you should be concerned about.

[Ruby the Liberal]

29. I dunno.

Been on many 12+ hour international flights across both ponds and the idea that something could attach to both seats and let me rest my head to the side without accidentally landing on my neighbor? I'd try it. Only in a window seat tho - it would piss off the entire row if one was doing that in an aisle seat.

[frogmarch]

12. Everyone would be lining up to

see your face. It would work the same way as a school teacher who didn't believe in evolution telling his or her students to staple shut all the science textbook pages discussing evolution.

[d_r]

13. it needs a break strap

right in the part of the seat in front of you, so you can snap it open and it will swing around like a big rubber band and pop the kid in the seat behind you who won't stop kicking your seat.

[customerserviceguy]

20. Love it! n/t

[pnwmom]

14. And then the person in front of you suddenly reclines

and your head falls and you snap it up again and get whiplash.

[icymist]

15. Couldn't be any worse that the The Original Authentic Ostrich Pillow

http://www.amazon.com/Studio-Banana-Things-Original-Authentic/dp/B00B4S6SLW/ref=sr_1_1?tag=ohmy0c-20



I love the reviews on this item; for instance:

By SBR on December 1, 2013
Ever since the abduction, things have never been the same. Night after night, I make odd clicking noises looking at the night sky...waiting...hoping. Needless to say, I have not been sleeping well. But a few days ago, I discovered the 'Ostrich Pillow' and it stirred a vague memory, so I bought it immediately. It dawned on me when I slid my head into the large pillowy goodness, that this was exactly like the anus of my alien captives. I have never slept more soundly. People now stare at me, not because of my claims of being probed, but because I wear an almost exact replica of an alien rectum on my head.

[Blue Owl]

16. Having a hard time wrapping my head around the concept

n/t

[markpkessinger]

21. If you want privacy on a flight, draw as much attention to yoursel as possible . . .

. . . brilliant!

[Lefta Dissenter]

23. you mean,

sort of like wearing a giant visor when you go out in public?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

24. Is that Justin Bieber?

[pinboy3niner]

25. Yes, and he appears to be having his head polished...

...by a bowling ball buffer.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

26. He deserves a good spit shine.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. On a flight? Fuck that.

I want one for all day long, everywhere.

[northoftheborder]

33. This goes straight to DUZY!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. This is so good I gotta kick it

even if it has won a Duzy already.