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NO ONE LIKES sitting in the middle seat on a plane.
You’re squashed between two other people, you haven’t an arm rest of your own and you always have to inconvenience someone if you need to go to the loo. Yes, it might be a very first world complaint but sitting in the middle seat stinks.
But a new concept thought up by Hank Scott of Molon Labe Designs could help ease the discomfort, Mashable reports. The ‘Side-Slip Seat’ consists of aisle seats which slide on top of middle seats creating more room while passengers get on and off board.
To make this possible, the middle seat is set lower than those on either side and it is also a few inches back giving at least the impression that you have a bit of your own space.
And any extra space is a welcome relief when you’re piggy in the middle.
For now this is just an idea but the designer is working to get it certified so it could be used in commercial aircraft.
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@dangle,what a nasty comment!!Wonder what was said by people like you about the Irish in the famine times!Same on you.
Amazing how these people keep on breeding even though food and water is had to come by in a poverty stricken kip
that it is!
You’re talking about human beings, not animals. Saying they are breeding is disgusting.
They are some of the poorest people in the world. Without access to basic needs like food and water, do you really think contraception is available?
Also, culturally African people generally have larger families for a variety of reasons, not unlike Irish people only two generations ago.
But it IS a poverty stricken kip, and they ARE breeding even though they know they will not be able to raise their kids. If I did not have the resources to take care of myself, I would not even think of bringing a child into the world. It would be a life of misery and starvation; nasty, brutish and short.
Gerry b does it need to be breaking news to keep these atrocities in the public domain???
Yawn
That’s the third time in less than 24 hours, that “the journal” has posted a news article on this same issue. It’s not big news, is it?????
I reckon u guys think this sort of story will provoke some interesting comments, as people’s attitudes on this sort of aid appeal tend to be so extreme.
Gerry B, if 10 MILLION people suffering drought conditions, destitute and barely surviving is not big news to you, what is?
Maybe you prefer to live in a bubble where we rehash the bank bailout arguement day in, day out.
Kinda puts our predicament into perspective I think.
Lenny, I accept your point, however, my comment still stands valid. This unfortunate situation Is not really breaking news and the fact that it has been featured on the journal 3 times in 14 hours, seems bizarre. I dont recall any reference to this story on tonights rte 9 pm news.
Ok, well I’ll stick with the journal covering everything from Irish news, columns, live sport updates to chocolate printers than
rte’s biased political reports to dinners flying on fair city.
I accept our differences.
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