Industrial air journey is a largely horrible expertise, and aviation firms patent plenty of methods to make it both slightly less miserable or an even more dystopian hell. The place does studying passengers’ feelings to supply them transcranial stimulation remedy fall? I’ll depart that as much as you.
Brazilian aerospace producer Embraer filed a patent application for a “mind stimulation system to supply a way of wellbeing” again in 2016, and it was granted final yr. However I solely found it thanks to a more recent Mastodon post by attorney Jeff Steck, and I’m fascinated. Embraer’s cheap beginning premise is that a lot of folks change into anxious on lengthy automotive, practice, and airplane rides, “turning a brief journey into an extended one.” From there, it envisions a posh system that covers:
In different phrases, your airplane seat might learn your face, inform in case you’re anxious, and (in case you so need) ship {an electrical} or magnetic sign to theoretically calm you down.
Transcranial magnetic or present stimulation is an accepted remedy for despair and a possible possibility for some other mental health conditions, and you may already purchase noninvasive units that present it for house use. An airline delivering it primarily based on facial evaluation would elevate a big host of privateness and private knowledge safety points, however firms file patents which might be by no means commercialized on a regular basis. So I’m not personally anticipating electrification as a perk on my subsequent flight — though the Jerry Seinfeld jokes about it virtually write themselves.