Personal protection

We can’t see it catching on, but kudos to a London hotel group for creating an inflatable ‘personal space’ jacket, a concept sufficiently ridiculous to secure some coverage on this page.

Designed by Leonardo Hotels to help ‘nervous tourists deal with crowds in the capital’, the so-called Space Optimiser jacket, which at first glance looks like a regular jacket, inflates to create ‘an exclusion zone of 18 inches’ around the wearer – the minimum measurement of what is considered ‘personal space’.