Taking the 'dramatic effect' argument further: if all the blue-eyed people kill themselves, would the brown-eyed people all simultaneously know they have brown eyes and also have to kill themselves?
I still believe the issue is more deeply rooted in passenger safety than in actual electrical interference. Take-off and landing are generally regarded as the most risk-prone activities for an aircraft. Having passengers at least slightly less disengaged likely benefits everyone. Not to mention it is arguably unpleasant to have 200 tablets flying about.
It's interesting because this is the type of patent system abuse that we often rally so hard against. Now that the objective is somehow more 'noble' will we ignore that this approach is still fundamentally opposed to the prevailing opinion on the patent system and those who abuse it?
Perhaps you could elaborate on this. I do agree that the title and video give slightly more credit than is due based on the current state of fluid dynamics knowledge. However do you mean your group is searching for closed-form solutions to NS or are you generating approximate numerical solutions (CFD)?