Design

A Devious Contraption to Stop Airplane Elbow Wars

"Soarigami" walls off airline armrests into separate but equal halves.
Soarigami

To judge from products on the market, air travel is nothing more than a passive-aggressive war for personal space. There's this seatmate-shunning head hammock, for instance, which grants privacy at the expense of looking like an overgrown baby. And who can forget the damnable Knee Defender, which prevents the person in front of you from leaning back?

Now there's the Soarigami, a (slightly) less misanthropic contraption designed to secure precious arm space. Shaped like a paper airplane, the Silicon Valley-designed barrier slides onto an armrest to extend it a few inches and, more importantly, keep your neighbor's elbows from wandering onto your side.