Edited by author 06-13-2003 06:44 AM
Some sort of cushion to sit on might be in order.

Drawing a blank... what's "DVT" stand for?

deep vein thrombosis

They'll be putting these in first class first, of course. This is fitting, given hijackers' propensity to buy first-class seats.

My wife had some minor surgery a few days ago and was so groggy that we checked her in overnght into a hospital room. The hospital bed, which looked ordinary, had a whole routine of motions it did automatically to prevent bedsores and other problems! Just equip the seat with a rhumba.

Don't see how a buttometer will tell the difference between a jumpy terrorist and a brake shoe jobber on his ninth coke.

Why not spend $ to make seats that are comfortable, instead of spending $$$ for seats that will tell you how uncomfortable a passenger is?

It seems they want us to believe that the airlines predicted terrorist attacks using their planes, and have been making their seats progressively more uncomfortable as part of a master plan to hunt terrorists down!

I also commented on this on Smart Mobs, the collective blog led by Howard Rheingold, because I clearly think it can be dangerous for our privacy. So I chose this title, which seems appropriate to me, "Big Brother is Taking the Plane."
You'll find it at http://www.smartmobs.com/archives/001156.html.

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So, are they going to combine this with a http://www.mobileasses.com/ style site? That way they can try and make some additional revenue by showing a picture of a backside and how it moves in flight...

Seriously, what is this sudden fascination with bottoms that everyone has all of a sudden? Are people looking for the true source of all this shit that we are having to put up with these days?

Z.

shouldn't that read "big brother is watching your ass"?

anyway - commenting on a defense contractor's press release about internal developments is maybe premature...

defense contractors attempt all sorts of stupid and useless projects. think bats laden with bombs in WWII and seagull vacuums located on the tarmac (to suck the buggers away to prevent them from clogging jet engines) - the list goes on ad nauseum.

no doubt, there is no conclusive way to determine if someone's sitting behaviour is an indicator of their likelyhood of being a terrorist. this tech will not be adopted. instead, they will put cameras at every seat or something.

Red Headed Ba*d (/m8) to make the seats more comfortable, they
need to give passengers more space, which means fewer people
per plane and lower revenues.

Of course, the butt-monitors on the Hooters Air flights will
show a lot more movement as the attendents move about the plane.

Oh great, as if the 19th century passion for phrenology wasn't bad enough, we've now surpassed it by inventing arsomancy (or whatevery the proper term is for "divination by buttox").

Yes, just as phrenology could predict human behavior by reading the shape of the head and the bumps on it, arsomancy allows you to predict terrorist behavior by the jiggling of passengers asses.

Following the same logic as phrenology, if your butt wiggles like a terrorist, you must be a terrorist!