Phone Mount on Plane Seat

I was traveling on a low cost carrier airline (budget airline) and found the trip frustrating as there is nothing to entertain me during my flight. I was able to utilize some items on the plane that can easily upgrade your seat with a screen for in flight videos. Total project is free of cost and took me less than 5 minutes to complete.

Step 1:

Take three barf bags from the plane pocket and detach the flexible thin metal piece behind it. You may have to borrow from your adjacent seats or ask from the flight attendant if you need more. Two of these metal pieces will serve as a base for your smart phone mount while the last piece will serve as a support on top of the smart phone to prevent it from flipping over.

Comments

[spark((sputter))flame]

This is genius!! MacGuyver would be proud, assuming he had a smartphone. And flew commercial airliners. And wasn't busy deactivating the bomb attached to the fuselage with the stewardess' ID pin and a pair of coffee stirrers.

Well done!

[daemn22]

haha yeah he's probably busy doing something else. They have to do a remake of that series!

[wilgubeast]

Love it! This needs to be added to my unusual uses for barf bags 'ible.

[instructamaker]

Wow im gonna do this for my mom when were on the plane to C.A

[kukubee]

Cool!!!
I imagine the phone dropping in the coffee, that will look funny!

[daemn22]

That would be one expensive coffee!

[WoundedEgo]

Clever! Better for your neck.

[daemn22]

A lot of people asks me "why not just place your phone on the table propped up at an angle with a kickstand or something else?" WoundedEgo just says the answer right here :P Plus it's more cool this way haha

[bgepp1]

a serious Macgyver move - I love it. I have noticed that many barf bags do not have a seal strip anymore :( This could easily be a product!

[gfo]

That is soooo MacGyver!!

[mi1ez]

Just brilliant!

[princesskessie]

I notice the latch is not covering the tray table (as it is sideways) - how do you stop the tray table from falling down?
And what if - like all the US flights, the international flights and the Australian domestic flights we just took in the last three months - not one of the barf bags had any think like those wires - or worse still, did not even have barf bags available (I'm looking at you, Delta!), even on request? Suggestions?

[daemn22]

Kessie, fortunately the table in front of me then had a sticky hinge so it didn't fall off even without the hatch locked. If it does though, you can use more metal pieces or credit card to lock the table. I'm not sure what Delta's airline use...perhaps is the flexible metal along the lips of the bag? If so, you can use this phone dock instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T40djmP2js

[stevie3]

Frickin' brilliant!!! Thanks!

[Barb37]

You might well have just become my new hero! I admire ingenuity on the fly (pun intended), and the skill of thinking simple - BRAVO!

[daemn22]

Very kind words! Thanks for the praises...appreciate it :)

[daemn22]

Zest is an international (but mostly domestic) airline in the Philippines. I made this on my trip to Boracay. I was watching the recent Pacquiao vs Marquez fight...best fight I've ever watched. No Wi-Fi on this budget airline. The video was downloaded prior to my flight. The attendants didn't mind my project but they shared a few smiles upon noticing it :)

[rolltidehank]

Awesome! Did any flight attendants say anything about it?

[Killergunman]

Showing this to a friend who flies every week almost!

[SelkeyMoonbeam]

This is excellent.

[carlo$]

Zest Air? never heard of it. What where you watching? did they have wi-fi in the plane?

[GorillazMiko]

You made an Instructable on a plane. This is awesome.

GM