Plane journeys are anything but ideal even in the most ideal situations, and the whole experience gets promoted to a whole new level of imperfection if the person on your neighboring seat snores like a diesel engine or throws up in a vomit bag.
But it is unarguable that the greatest of all sins to commit on a plane is that off flatulence.
This is something, by no means, acceptable when you are flying through the air at a high speed in a metallic tube on such an attitude as makes opening a window out of question.
So you have to deal with all that smell on your own, with no fresh air to come to your rescue.
However, if you have a weird bowel and are yet conscious of other people’s comfort, you can use the product created by a company known as Shreddies.
They have made fart-filtering underwear that goes by the name of Shreddies Carbonana.
The Carbonana is shaped like a banana and is made out of foam. This thing is capable of filtering foul smells and undesirable odors if you happen to pass some wind while wearing it.
The functional part of the $25 product is activated carbon cloth that is covered in jersey fabric. You are supposed to place it on the rear of your underwear just where the wind leaves your body.
The good part is, this thing is reusable. You can wash and use it. Your washing machine might not have a preset for fart filtering pads so you need to be innovative on that front.
The man behind the invention of this revolutionary product is Paul O-Leary. The British designer started working on the idea after he had an unpleasant experience on his flight to New York.
O’Leary, who owns Shreddies, based in Cotes, situated near Loughborough, Leicestershire, noticed that the carbon used in their fart-filtering products caused confusion for the airport safety equipment and hence the users had to remove them before security check or undergo some unwanted thorough checking.
He solved the problem by introducing a removable banana pad that the user can easily pull out of the underwear and place back in when needed.
Richard Woolley, the MD of Shreddies, said: “This is a real game changer for air travel. The Carbonana will improve passenger comfort for all on board.”
Shreddies took the opinion of gastroenterologist Niket Sonpal in the process of developing the new fart filter.
The medical specialist explained to them that airplanes are pressurized when they are in the altitude range of 6000 to 8000ft.
This leads to the pressurizing of the gases in the guts and hence increases the occurrence of flatulence.
Sonpal explained: “Air expands at higher altitudes, gas in our intestines expands too, up to 30 percent more than usual, and that air needs to go somewhere.”
O’Leary’s company, Shreddies, was founded in 2009. It markets a number of fart filtering products, from pajamas and underwear to jeans and cushions.
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