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SkyMall Now Selling Air For $300

August 19, 2009 at 4:19 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

It is only 33,000-feet up and halfway through your second chardonnay that products like the following begin to make sense.

SkyMall's Tranquil Sounds Oxygen Bar takes the natural air that humans have been breathing for millions of years and runs it through a bunch of filters, boosting the oxygen mix from 21% to 30%. Owners are then invited to strap the included headset to their faces, turn on any of the machine's four built-in "ethereal musical patterns," and lose themselves in relaxation. The product is now available for $299.99 before taxes.

We're not particularly interested in debating the health merits of oxygen bars. It's true human lungs evolved to handle our planet's 21% oxygen mix and that our lungs are ill-suited for other combinations. It's also true that there's no biological reason why a higher dose of oxygen would "replenish, renew and rejuvenate you down to the cell." There's always a chance, though, that "the experts" are just blinded by their devotion to "studies" and "proof."

Even more importantly: what these self-styled "scientists" don't understand is that the Tranquil Sounds Oxygen Bar has not two, not three, but four musical patterns. How could a product with four musical patterns be anything less than totally rejuvenating and relaxing?

Normal SkyMall shipping takes about 8 days, by which time you should be back on the ground and out of the airplane's captive audience. But if you don't think you can make it through the rest of the week without "the extra get up and go" that this item promises, you can pay extra to have it rushed. We, however, will have just have a third chardonnay and put the SkyMall back in the seat pocket in front of us.

[Photo: SkyMall]

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