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The Buttocks Have It

Posted by michael on from the hot-seat dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From this ZDNET article: Future hijackers may find that their buttocks betray them, if UK defense firm Qinetiq has its way. The company has developed a smart chair stashed with a thicket of seat sensors, according to New Scientist magazine this week. The same seats could also be used to warn cabin staff of illness among the passengers, potentially alleviating the risk of deep vein thrombosis or DVT."

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  1. DVT? Just increase the fucking legroom. by sulli · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Damn airlines [1] do everything they can to avoid the simple fact that their seats are too small, and too close together. What will it take, a class action lawsuit? Just give passengers enough room (36" pitch is reasonable, not the appalling 30" on some flights) and the whole DVT thing will go away.

    [1] Except United in "economy plus" and most American planes, though AA is reducing room again on some flights. Fuckers.

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    sulli
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  2. Interesting... by zCyl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sensors which detect seat movement. Now that's definitely a solution looking desperately for a problem.

  3. Re:DVT? Just increase the fucking legroom. by chundo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So what are they going to do when they suspect DVT in a passenger? Bump them to first class?

    Guess who's gonna be fidgeting nonstop on my next flight...

    -j

  4. Just in case first-time fliers weren't scared.... by Trillan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can always count on the airline industry! Just in case first-time fliers weren't scared enough, they now need to be worried about being jumped because they're acting scared.

  5. Durability? by sukotto · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The last 4 flights I was on the headphone jack and/or the channel/volume selecter was broken.

    I wonder how long it will be before these things break. Or even better, when they develop an intermittent short like the headphone jack did the last time. Seat 42 is a terrorist! oh maybe not... oh he is! oh maybe not...

    How about a low tech solution? Put a f*cking steel door up between the pilots and the passangers and stop harrassing the 99.999999999999% of passangers who are law-abiding.

    Sorry... I fly a lot and it keeps getting worse and worse.

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