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Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Re: Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Post by tombert »

During long road trips, back before iPhones and the like, my mom would have us pick out a book and buy it for us to read to keep us entertained while driving.

That worked fine for me, I've never gotten carsick, but for my sister could never do that; after reading for not much time, she would start feeling nauseous. Initially I think my parents thought she was exaggerating to get attention, but eventually she puked in the car because of it and they suddenly had no issue believing her.

It eventually led to them buying a cheap TV/VCR combo and a cheap power inverter for the cigarette lighter and using that for road trips, which didn't seem to bother her very much.

Re: Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Post by ms7m »

apparent wrote: post #49

I wonder if this could work on computers, not just smartphones/tablets. Presumably so, assuming they have enough motion sensors. Could a third party dev build it, or is it something that only Apple can build?

This works really well in the Tesla Ubers here in NYC when i'm working on my MacBook :)

Re: Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Post by Cider9986 »

advisedwang wrote: post #14

Seems like there's a few android equivalents: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panshen.mo... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid... And even one that claims to work with sound: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.a1... EDIT: Actually there's an enormous number of apps like this, many released very recently with similar style etc. Weird.

I've found Kinestop to be much more effective and immediate than Apple's, highly recommend.

Re: Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Post by mmcclure »

As a kid I didn't get carsick at all. I could work on my laptop, read, whatever while my parents drove. As an adult, at some point I started to barely be able to do anything but keep my eyes on the road without feeling bad.

Turned these on recently, and they work bizarrely well...unfortunately. Downside is that I feel like I lost an excuse to avoid devices for a few minutes while traveling.

Re: Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Post by Groxx »

Cider9986 wrote: post #50
ramraj07 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful with these apps. The permissions they ask for are quite expansive.

Absolutely, which is why I really appreciate the network permission on GrapheneOS. It makes me more comfortable to allow other permissions knowing no data can be exfiltrated.

It's wild to me that "internet access" is not revokable or even displayed in the Play Store in stock Android. It's such a huge security and privacy concern, even if most apps semi-legitimately need it.

Or, it would be wild, if it weren't fairly obvious that this is just Google protecting their mobile ad revenue.

Re: Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Post by nopakos »

Cider9986 wrote: post #50
ramraj07 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful with these apps. The permissions they ask for are quite expansive.

Absolutely, which is why I really appreciate the network permission on GrapheneOS. It makes me more comfortable to allow other permissions knowing no data can be exfiltrated.

Network permissions could be used to avoid ads on Android. The horror!

Re: Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

dylan604 wrote: post #34
sowbug wrote: post #29

You might ask why motion sickness even exists in the first place. Why do nausea and vomiting make sense when your body is in a car or on a boat? Nobody knows for sure, but there's a convincing theory. Zillions of years ago, we were foragers. We ate what we found. And if we ate something bad, like a poisonous berry, we could die. One of the first symptoms of neurotoxin ingestion is that your eyes lose their tracking a…

> And it's why reading in the car gets some people so horribly sick. As a kid, I was told to turn 90° so that the back and forth of my eyes reading were in line with the motion of the car. This was soooo before any kind of electronic devices. Hell, the radio in the car still had the giant push buttons for saving stations.

...and did it work?

Re: Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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Post by aaarrm »

My partner got some goofy glasses with liquid in them to help him use his phone in the car.

He only had to wear them for a week or two before his motion sickness from cars was completely cured. Now he can just use his phone, without the glasses, in the car whenever he wants

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