With rows upon rows of people squeezed into cramped seats, it’s hard not to imagine the clouds of germs that could be circulating throughout the cabin.
Fortunately, 17-year-old Raymond Wang has a solution. The teenage scientist created a small device that he says could increase fresh air inhalation on airplanes by as much as 190 percent.
In a recent TED Talk, Wang explained that each time a person sneezes on an airplane, that sneeze circulates the entire airplane cabin before being filtered out by vents on the sides of the plane. Essentially, a single sneeze can end up flowing past several rows of people, all of whom are potentially inhaling its pathogens.
via Mental Floss
