6 Gadgets To Keep You Occupied on Your Next Flight

The pandemic is coming to an end and travel is opening back up across the globe. Whether it be for business or pleasure, 10 hours on a plane can feel like 10 days, especially without something more than SkyMall to entertain you. Here are six new gadgets to help further fuel your will to travel the post-pandemic globe.

Portable Charger

Even if you look yourself in the mirror and promise to read books and only books during your flight, avoiding your phone for 10 hours is quite the task, and ensuring you have a charged device for when you reach your destination is as equally important, especially if you’ll be needing a translator app. Portable chargers are aplenty, and some are wireless, some are extremely small, and some can even support A/C plugins like a computer charger you’d typically plug into your wall at home. Most of the A/C supported chargers are still upwards of $100, but a basic power bank to ensure your phone can be fully charged up a couple of times during a flight can be purchased for less than 20 bucks.

Intelligent Sleep Masks

Is jet lag one of your biggest concerns with long travel? If you’re one of the fortunate individuals who can sleep while in flight, an intelligent sleep mask can help ease your mind and body into your new time zone, but slowly adjusting the level of darkness resonating off the inside of the mask, akin to sunlight if you were staying in one place. And for those folks who generally cannot fall asleep on planes, one of these masks might just be your one-way ticket to sleep.

Pillow Fight!

There are several options for travel pillows, and a “to each their own” approach to choosing is really the only way to decide which is best for you, but if you have yet to try the new scarf-like pillows called “Trtl Pillows” they are worth a try if more classic styles haven’t been serving you too well. As the name suggests, these pillows look like a turtle neck, propping the traveler’s head up to avoid the classic bobbing-and-waking cycle.

The Great Divider

One of life’s greatest mysteries is deciding who that arm rest belongs to in the air, and on an international flight, having an armrest hog in the seat next to you can be the difference between peace and metaphorical turbulence spread over several hours. Luckily for travelers abound, the Soarigami is a device that divides the armrest and allows for a little storage space and extra privacy, too. Check it out on Amazon.

Window Seat Upgrade

Similar to the Soarigami, and an equal in the pun game, the SpAIRtray window tray is an extremely small device you can slide into almost any plane window, giving you a smaller tray area that allows for continued flow of your legs and knees while still providing a place to put your device or charger. There are a couple of similar products that upgrade the window seat, but be sure your flights allow you to pick where you sit, or it’ll be nothing more than a papair-weight.

Time to Try Some Videogames!

Most gamers don’t need to be told to download some new content for a big flight, but for some skeptics of the digital entertainment sector, it may be welcomed news to hear that pretty much all of your favorite games have an app-equivalent. From crosswords to madlibs to scrabble to cribbage, a digital rendition probably exists, so that long flight may be a great time to download your first videogame (or two).

The travel industry is expected to stay fairly cheap even as it reopens, so now you have some ideas to spend that extra travel cash on!