New airline seats may measure your in-flight habits

There’s a lot of things to consider when you first step onto an airplane and survey your own personal little domain for the foreseeable future. As it turns out, soon your seat may be similarly scanning your reactions as well to get information on your habits. New seats developed by Airbus and Recaro and still in development phase, will measure much of that information automatically. “The seats work to display some incredibly detailed information about how passengers spend time in their seats. The connected cabin tablet, using the iSeat program, displays who’s in each seat, if it’s occupied, whether the armrests are up or down, if the seatback table is in use and if passengers are reclined or not,” says one aviation profiler. This technology may be a blessing for some travellers, and a privacy issue for others. <br/>