Airbus Patent Looks to Mind Control to Improve the In-Flight Experience
Photo Credit: Airbus Headrest for a passenger seat for an aircraft, US 8814266 B2 Airbus
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Oh, Brave New World. We can’t wait to try it on for size.
Airbus wants to put your head in a bowl to ensure you have no more Total Recall of your dreadful flight experience.
The aircraft manufacturer has now filed US Patent 8814266 B2 for a Head-Rest design which converts into a full-immersion, multi-sensory, sensory-deprivation, virtual-reality, headrest-hat-astronaut-helmet thingie.
According to the aircraft manufacturer:
During aircraft flights, certain passengers have periods when they are bored either during a wait phase preceding take-off or following landing or during a cruise phase
