Smart seats to detect scared or scary fliers
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Smart seats to detect scared or scary fliers
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Smart seats to detect scared or scary fliers
June 11 2003 at 02:18PM
London - Intelligent seats could soon be informing airline crews whether a passenger is a nervous flyer, a potential terrorist or has been sitting still too long and could be at risk of developing blood clots.
Qinetiq, which was set up last year in a part-privatisation of Britain's former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, is developing airline seats with sensors that can relay signals assessing a passenger's behaviour to a central computer.
"Qinetiq designer Chris Thorpe says the system could have a display that is only accessible to the cabin crew - perhaps in the galley - to warn if a passenger's behaviour is out of the ordinary," according to a report in the journal New Scientist.
The crew can then assess the passenger and decide whether he or she presents or is at risk.
'The sensing seats are part of a bigger project to make airline cabins more friendly'
The company said more sensors and other techniques such as monitoring temperature and skin moisture levels could also be used to help the crew make their judgements.
"The sensing seats are part of a bigger project to make airline cabins more friendly, with lighting that dims when you fall asleep, for instance," the magazine added.
First-class passengers will be the first to benefit from the smart seats, which could be available in about a year.
Smart seats to detect scared or scary fliers
June 11 2003 at 02:18PM
London - Intelligent seats could soon be informing airline crews whether a passenger is a nervous flyer, a potential terrorist or has been sitting still too long and could be at risk of developing blood clots.
Qinetiq, which was set up last year in a part-privatisation of Britain's former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, is developing airline seats with sensors that can relay signals assessing a passenger's behaviour to a central computer.
"Qinetiq designer Chris Thorpe says the system could have a display that is only accessible to the cabin crew - perhaps in the galley - to warn if a passenger's behaviour is out of the ordinary," according to a report in the journal New Scientist.
The crew can then assess the passenger and decide whether he or she presents or is at risk.
'The sensing seats are part of a bigger project to make airline cabins more friendly'
The company said more sensors and other techniques such as monitoring temperature and skin moisture levels could also be used to help the crew make their judgements.
"The sensing seats are part of a bigger project to make airline cabins more friendly, with lighting that dims when you fall asleep, for instance," the magazine added.
First-class passengers will be the first to benefit from the smart seats, which could be available in about a year.
Can you imagine flying on Hoot Air and being arrested by the Thought Police after seat sensors detected unusual movement between your legs every time one of the hosties went by or bent over!
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All this chatter about seat sensors and the like is fine but, what I have dreamed about over the years is an electric toilet seat heater that will quickly clear the lav when it's time to head back for some "relief of physiological needs." Nothing like trying to outwait someone who has homesteaded on the forward "throne."
You want to take a break from "saving everyone's life" and get on with a good pee and your stuck in traffic. A 115VAC 400HZ toilet seat heater could do the job in short order.
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You want to take a break from "saving everyone's life" and get on with a good pee and your stuck in traffic. A 115VAC 400HZ toilet seat heater could do the job in short order.
PT
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Simplify the design.
Instead of a myriad of sensors and detectors the design could be greatly simplified by using only one sensor. That unit would be inserted into the rectum of each passenger and the computer could just measure pucker factor.
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It's coming!
The FAA has already started the FDAP program where random flight data is downloaded from the FDR. They want to mount camera's in the cockpit to monitor things and for analysis during accident investigations. The next step is for "sphinctoral probes" tied into this system that immediately alert Oklahoma City when somebody's bum tightened up.
"(Sound of alarm) BooEEp-BooEEp"
"Sir we have a sphincto-sensor alarm in sector seven G"
"Alert the authorities at their destination. Mark the tapes and find out why they scared themselves. We'll get to the bottom of this one!"
My arse!
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The FAA has already started the FDAP program where random flight data is downloaded from the FDR. They want to mount camera's in the cockpit to monitor things and for analysis during accident investigations. The next step is for "sphinctoral probes" tied into this system that immediately alert Oklahoma City when somebody's bum tightened up.
"(Sound of alarm) BooEEp-BooEEp"
"Sir we have a sphincto-sensor alarm in sector seven G"
"Alert the authorities at their destination. Mark the tapes and find out why they scared themselves. We'll get to the bottom of this one!"
My arse!
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Bubbette if I may..............
3. Passenger reaction to in-flight catering.
"Will it be Beef or Chicken?"
"Is there a difference?"
"One has rice............."
3. Passenger reaction to in-flight catering.
"Will it be Beef or Chicken?"
"Is there a difference?"
"One has rice............."
