Double-Decker Armrest Could End Battle For Elbow Room On Airplanes

"Paperclip" keeps your seatmate's filthy arm three inches away.

Armrest design is second to everything for the airline industry, which clearly doesn't give two hoots about the unpleasantness of touching your neighbor's elbows and, worse, encountering his or her sweaty skin. It's downright unseemly in an era when most airplanes have $10,000 televisions on the back of each seat.

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