Not your average travel pillow: 6 of the most ingenious and utterly ridiculous options

We’ll do anything – anything – to get some shut-eye on the road. The existence of all the makes and models of travel pillows out there on the market is inflatable, wearable, occasionally ridiculous proof of that.

Click through the slideshow to see some of the ingenious and absurd travel pillows we road warriors have invented, purchased, strapped on and used in our quest to achieve something resembling sleep while in transit. Most are so odd and unexpected they look like they could only have been invented out of dire, dire necessity by someone locked in a tight, cramped, hopeless space for an extended period of time. You know, like someone on an plane.

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