There’s always that one ass-hat on every long-haul flight who insists on keeping the window shade up. The whole plane is trying to sleep on this 4,000-hour flight to Singapore, yet Billy Bob wants to look out over every last inch of Pacific Ocean. Those little airline eye-masks are an abject failure, and draping a hoodie over your face is damn near suffocation as you breathe and rebreathe your own hot, nasty breath.

When I found Manta Sleep years ago through a Kickstarter campaign, my in-flight sleep habits improved drastically. Also helped with jetlag when my body says it’s 2a.m. but the view from the hotel window says it’s 2 in the afternoon. This modular, no-pressure, super-soft sleep mask is literally the best that has ever been designed – so good, in fact, that my wife stole mine…