Posted on 01/24/2015 10:51:11 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
On Thursday, the company behind the nearly ubiquitous in-flight catalog SkyMall filed for bankruptcy. As the Wall Street Journal put it, the institution was simply a “victim of evolving rules and technology that now lets airline passengers keep their smartphones and tablets powered up during flight.”
For those who spent the majority of their early ’90s flights thumbing through the quarterly magazine, this is a tragedy. Like the mall staple Sharper Image, the catalog pushed the boundaries of absurdity in almost every category of domestic existence. Rather than attempt to fill the space of a practical retailer, the SkyMall catalog enticed you with overpriced items you never dreamed existed, items like hair-growing laser headsets or kitty litterboxes that resemble the Death Star.
They were all wildly expensive and impractical but all a tantalizing possibility when you were stuck on a delayed six-hour flight.
Below, we offer some of the more ingenious products the forlorn catalog brought us (some sourced from this wonderful Tumblr). Rest in peace, SkyMall, on your glorious and weird neck pillow in the sky.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
VERY entertaining! I wonder if anyone would actually take the catalog with them off the plane and actually ORDER something!
Omg...lol...so sorry...I was supposed to be commenting on a Bill Maher thread. Curse you, ipad...LOLZ...
My comment was supposed to be on a derogatory statement made by bill maher on another thread...sorry slings and arrows....”wut?” Indeed! Lol...
Ok now that is perfect for the yacht in heavy weather.
:-) I guess they wanted to give the “everywhere you are” type of service.
Johnson smith is where I first saw fake chest hair triangles, “for those who nature forgot.”
You’re supposed to put them in the back? No wonder nobody would talk to me at the company Christmas party.
Interesting...
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