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By now you have heard all about the Knee Defender, a device that prevents passengers from reclining in their airline seat, causing quite the national stir. Well, if you like that thing, you are going to love these.

Now it’s easy to see why the Knee Defender has become so popular. CNN reports the company’s website has 500 times the normal traffic in the wake of a bizarre and controversial story.

However, as CNN reports, the device was invented in 2003, only now becoming widely known thanks to a viral news item.

Being a country of hipsters, it’s important to get out ahead of the crowd and guarantee we are pioneers when it comes to really insane airplane devices. Here are just a few:

Flying Pasties:

Make TSA checks a private affair with Flying Pasties, because covering a TSA agent's eyes is far more difficult.

The product’s website proclaims this device will shield your privates from being seen at security checkpoints. That doesn’t sound all that crazy, but we thankfully have a video to solve all that.

Be warned, because ABC News reported back in 2010 that a device like this could actually garner more attention from TSA, which will eat into your airport bar time. 

EZ Sleep Travel Pillow:

Those hell-bent on imposing their will on a plane will love the EZ Sleep Pillow, which can be used as a cushion to your front or, hilariously, to your side.

Here is an image of a sleeping traveler whom, we have to point out, is sitting next to an empty seat.

Image via EZ Sleep Travel Pillow.

We say cut out the middleman and just lay your head on your neighbor. You don’t give two whoops what anyone thinks anyway.  

PlaneSheets:

As its website states, “PlaneSheets offers today's travelers an innovative and practical way to personalize their travel space while keeping at bay germs, crumbs and spills from previous passengers.”

Yes, these sheets are oversized versions of the sheets you lay on public restroom toilet seats, perfect for the hypochondriac in your life.

Now instead of waiting for the passenger next to you to get situated, you can watch as they gussy up their seat in disposable paper.

Upright Sleeper:

Behold the Upright Sleeper.

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This device, we presume, was invented by someone who thought, you know what looks comfortable, people going through traction. Now we couldn’t track down if you can still buy this device, because the previously listed Uprightsleeper.com now links to a device called the Kiddo Pillow, which is essentially the same—except used on those too young to argue.

Urinelle:

There isn’t really much we men have as an advantage over women. Really, I count one, and that’s the ability to urinate standing up.

Well, thanks to Urinelle, we don’t even have that anymore.

Honorable Mention:

Finally, we bring you an item perfect for that traveler who has completely given up on life. Jalopnik reports on the BeltzBib, and it’s perfect for keeping your shirt clean as you stuff your omnom hole with hamburgers. Sadly, it doesn’t look like the company, Dan's Products, is still active. So you have to use a bib like a normal primate.

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