You know when you’re sitting on the plane and you start thumbing through the online magazines and inevitably someone
before you has already done the crossword (or usually just PART of it…the easy part) and so you fish around looking for
something to read and inevitably you pick up the SkyMall catalog? Is it just me
or is this thing filled with some of the most ludicrous cr*p you’ve ever seen?
Well, we thought we’d start off this Friday with a list of the top five most ridiculous items found in these in-flight
catalogs. You may agree or disagree with our choices, and you may argue that some of these items are in some way useful
or practical
1.
Air travel pillow: sure, we’ve sent men to the moon, but airlines have largely not figured out how to make sleeping
on a flight comfortable. Having a nice pillow to put your face in would be nice, but are you REALLY going to carry this
thing around with you?
2.
Wearable
air purifier: This product is said to “substantially reduce pollutants, dust, smoke, pollens, germs, perfumes,
odors and allergen particles floating in the air” and to deliver “clean, fresh air” to your mouth, nose and eyes. First
of all, for this thing to really work, it would have to take all the air out of your immediate space, and if it
functioned so would likely suck your face right into itself. But secondly, only a raging hypochondriac would ever need
such a thing.
3.
Wondervase,
portable vase: a portable vase?
4.
Travel Sound Soother: this device plays soothing sounds like a purring ocean, birds chirping, and other new agey
sounds. It even comes with a wrist strap. I can see the benefit of drowning out airplane noise with the tweets of
songbirds, but are you really going to buy this thing? Here’s a tip: go to iTunes and download some
Windham Hill.
5. Evac-U8 Smoke Hood:
Honestly, you’d have to be a true paranoid to believe that you need a portable smoke hood in case the plane goes down.
And lets face it, if you’re plane does go down, you’re going to burn to a crisp before yuo get a chance to put this
thiing on.