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A twist on [Anti-seasickness Design]
This simple product should prevent sea, car, train and in fact all travel sickness!
People tend to get sick while traveling because their inner-ear and their eyes are feeding their brain different information - So the fix is to make both pieces of information
the match! This can be in the form of a simple artificial horizon.
Take a ping-pong ball - Cut it in half, paint one half sky-blue, the other grass/sea-green(sic). Fill the green and blue halves with plasticine, but add a large nut (or a magnet, see below) to the green half to make it a little heavier.
Glue the two halves together, and place in one of those transparent sphere's you get toys in, and fill it with alcohol.
Congratulations, you now have a simple, and multi-purpose Artificial Horizon. With care, it should give you years of vomit-free travelling!
Notes:
The Magnet could make the device a compass too.
The alcohol's got 2 purposes: To prevent freezing, and as an emergency backup source of alcohol.
The artificial Horizon Glasses
http://www.optic-tempest.com/
I'm afraid this is not nearly as halfbaked as these. But I've heard that Elton John might have a pair. [Dub, Sep 06 2005]
Joker_of_the_deck's Anti-seasickness Design
Anti-seasickness_20Design
[Dub, Sep 07 2005]
Just gone on sale
http://www.newlaunc...iefband_is_here.php
[Dub, Dec 14 2005]
Patent:Mug incorporating a simulated artificial horizon
http://www.freepate...ne.com/5904268.html
[Dub, Jan 23 2007]
Hi-Tech Goggles Set To Combat Air Sickness
http://news.sky.com...combat-air-sickness
"They work by getting wearers to view a virtual horizon and if the plane shifts to one side, so too will the view, effectively tricking the passenger's eyes and brain." [Dub, May 28 2015]
BlindType demo
https://www.youtube...watch?v=M9b8NlMd79w
[notexactly, Jun 13 2015]
MetaFilter: I've got a remedy for seasickness. It's a pocean.
https://www.metafil...ckness-Its-a-pocean
[Dub, Jun 14 2020]
[link]
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//and fill it with alcohol// It is always booze with you, isn't it? |
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[miasere] Pornography: Not for young sickies, though. |
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I thought of filling it with some viscous liquid, then ignored that and went with the alcohol... I think ships' compasses are the same. Advise, please, anyone? |
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[link]I prefer my solution - And it doesn't need batteries :) |
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I used to get motion sickness really bad, I mean I was good for about 2 minutes on a decent mountain range before barfaroo. A friend of my fathers explained that it was the disorientation between what I could see (and therefore motion/acceleration I was anticipating ie none) versus input from my inner ear. that's why watching a movie or reading a book is the worst for me, because I'm not thinking about the road at all. Two great solutions arose from this. a) sit up and look out the front window, watch the road and anticipate corners, g-forces, etc. |
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b) drive, cause youre thinking about it anyway. |
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Nowadays I just do all the driving, lucky that I love to drive, eh? |
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Perhaps a more powerful solution would be to make one channel of the in-flight/drive/train tv channel to eb a view of the track/road/flight path ahead, that way if the stomach starts rolling you just switch channels and think about what the vehicle is doing. It works for me every time. |
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Curiously, he explained that the reaction your body underwent for motion sickness was a psychosomatic version of the reaction to ingestion of toxins, ie uneasiness, folowed by queasiness, a feeling of fear/anxiety, followed by sickness, then disorientation, and eventually loss of consciousness. Really not sure if this was based on medical data, but I have had all of these symptoms at one time or another, in that progression, normally due to sea-sickness. I have also never encountered a tablet that can help me. |
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"A sure cure for sea-sickness is to sit under a tree." |
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//A sure cure for sea-sickness is to sit under a tree//
Is that what James Cagney was trying to do in "Mister Roberts"? |
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I suffer quite badly from travel sickness (a mis-nomer if ever there was one). I can't go much more than about 20 miles in a car without starting to feel queasy, it's even worse on coaches and boats seems to depend on the weather. However, I have no problem at all on busses, trains or planes so I think that there must be other components to the issue. A bit of claustrophobia and the smell of cars/petrol also seem to contribute so I don't think that an artificial horizon would help me really. |
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Okay, that link // Hi-Tech Goggles Set To Combat
Air Sickness // Sounds fine, but I wouldn't want
to wear virtual reality goggles all the time. This
idea is fine, but staring at a small artificial horizon
sounds boring. |
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So use the accelerometer in a tablet (or smart
phone) to figure out where a virtual horizon
should be, then adjust the normal cell-phone
display to show images stationary compared to the
horizon, not stationary relative to the tablet. You
can use this to watch a movie, read a book, or
whatever. Texting might be difficult if the
keyboard is moving, so you'd need to make some
special cases to only have part of the displayed
image moving around. Of course the area of the
display would need to be reduced and framed with
a black border to avoid having parts of the screen
cut off as it shifts around. During a turn, ideally
the image would pan off the screen, but I bet if it
only responded to fairly quick movements and not
slow ones it would be able to keep the image on
the screen and still combat motion sickness. |
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A similar system could be implemented on the
movie screens built into the plane. |
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//People tend to get sick while traveling because
their inner-ear and their eyes are feeding their brain
different information// |
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Hang on a moment. I mean, just hang on for one
moment. |
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Why, exactly, are these two sources of information
different? If I'm on a ship in a stormy see, my inner
ear will be telling me all about the roll and pitch of
the ship. My eyes, likewise, will be telling me the
same thing. |
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So where is the alleged mismatch which is supposed
to cause sea-sickness? I suspect the real problem is
just that your intestines are being sloshed around
your abdomen and they, your eyes and your inner ear
are all telling you the same thing. |
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It's well known that sitting in the back seat of a car or the
rear of an aeroplane makes passengers more prone to
sickness. This makes me think the phenomenon might be
something to do with where you're sitting relative to the
centre of rotation of the vehicle. If you're at the rear then
during an upward pitch you actually accelerate downwards
pretty rapidly, even though your net velocity may still be
upward (during a climb for instance). |
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Your theory has some merit, [Enoch], but it fails to
account fully for the observation that drinking three
Mohitos in rapid succession prevents travel sickness. |
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// If I'm on a ship in a stormy see, my inner ear will be
telling me all about the roll and pitch of the ship. My eyes,
likewise, will be telling me the same thing.// |
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Not if you're inside the ship, then your inner ears will be
telling you that you will be rolling pitching and yawing,
whereas your eyes will be observing that your relative
position to the bar remains constant. Mismatch. |
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Which explains why 3 Mohitos will fix it. Those will
help make the bar appear to pitch and spin, more
closely resembling what your inner ear was saying. |
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If the prevailing theory is correct then closing your eyes
should cure this. |
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If your eyes are closed, the image is not in sync
with the motion, the image is nonexistent. I don't
think this proves or disproves the theory. |
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// Texting might be difficult if the keyboard is moving
// |
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It doesn't have to be. See [link]. (Still-available
keyboards that do similar things include Fleksy and
SwiftKey.) |
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// If your eyes are closed, the image is not in sync with
the motion, the image is nonexistent. I don't think
this proves or disproves the theory. // |
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But the theory says the cause is the presence of an
image that is not in sync with the motion, not the
lack of an image that is in sync with the motion. If it
was the latter, you'd get seasick every time you closed
your eyes. |
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