Knee Defender

Okay, this is so mean it's cool. For those of us that generally fly coach, there's now a solution for the half-bald dandruff head that you're forced to reckon with when they recline their seat into your lap. It's called the Knee Defender, and it keeps our aforementioned danderhead from being able to recline his chair. Brilliant!

Mean? Definitely. Cool? Definitely. Ring me up one of these. Apparently it's so subtle that even if the patron in front of you reports the "defective chair" to the flight attendant, it's such a tiny item that it is virtually unnoticeable! At the bottom of their site, they have a paragraph about how it isn't in violation of any FAA rules/regulations, and is completely legal. I don't have a height issue, but tall guys like my Dad might be able to put this to good use so they don't get their knees crushed on those cramped seats.

After surfing some more, I think MSN had a travel article about putting the in-flight magazine in that hinge as a knee defender. I am more of a gadget fan though. :)