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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 matt-attack »

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.

Those giant “push” buttons, which automatically unpushed the other buttons when one is pushed, are called…. Get ready… radio buttons.

Now you know why radio buttons are called that in modern UIs.

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

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Post by decimalenough »

kazinator wrote: post #177

I'm skeptical that this kind of tech can fully counteract serious motion sickness, like many hours or days on a boat. From personal experience, I know that even if you go out onto the deck and look out on the ocean, so that you have a visual reference to the horizon, it doesn't help. You can look out of the window of the car and still get motion sickness; it doesn't only happen to people who are engaged with somethin…

The apps are targeted at a very specific but common use case: being unable to read while in a moving vehicle. It's not going to help you if you're on a sailboat in heavy seas for a day.

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

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Post by anitil »

I wish I could cure my sea sickness. The only thing that's worked is being on a boat more often (which isn't possible for me at the moment), and getting more sleep. The anti-nausea tablets unfortunately put me to sleep and they don't feel very safe in terms of driving to/from the boat

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

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Post by sowbug »

ziml77 wrote: post #165
sowbug wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once it starts for me, it's not stopping for at least a couple hours, even if I immediately get back on solid ground. But I used to get sick playing Quake, so maybe I'm in the 11 group.

Do you retain the sensation that everything is still wobbling? I would get that after being on a boat for long enough. Though motion sickness never made me feel ill to my stomach, rather it just gives me the worst headaches that require fresh air and time to relieve.

Just nausea for me. What you're describing sounds like the recovery phase of sea legs.

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

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Post by dopplr »

robocat wrote: post #132
nancyminusone wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

perhaps it means you are more immune to poison, so you don't need to vomit

I have a friend who absolutely loves getting the spins from excessive drinking. She liked to lie down and watch the room spinning. I would need to ask her if she gets motion sickness.

I dont get any motion sickness at all, not on airplane, car, boat, etc.

If I drink enough to get the spins, I will /not/ get sick when my eyes are open, even when my eyes are clearly dealing with nystagmus.. but if I keep my eyes closed for more than 30 seconds, I definitely feel ill.

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

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Post by Unit327 »

I can just see the meeting where the apple developers pitched this. "Some of our users want to stare at their black rectangles for 18 hours a day but unfortunately have to take a break and stare out of the window because of motion sickness. How can we help them in order to drive up usage even more?"

There's probably a meeting going on somewhere inside google/apple right now to work out how to cure humans of the need for sleep.

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

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Post by turbocon »

anitil wrote: post #194

I wish I could cure my sea sickness. The only thing that's worked is being on a boat more often (which isn't possible for me at the moment), and getting more sleep. The anti-nausea tablets unfortunately put me to sleep and they don't feel very safe in terms of driving to/from the boat

Meclizine OTC is non-drowsy and works really well for my wife.

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

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Post by MiddleEndian »

AndriyKunitsyn wrote: post #122
Groxx wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's basically zero apps without some sort of analytics nowadays.

Sounds like a concern for app devs but something that shouldn't be a concern for users (because they should be able to turn it off)

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

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Post by pfdietz »

bitpush wrote: post #73
axus wrote: post #70

Unlike many obvious inventions, this is novel enough to deserve patent protection.

Why? Volvo famously gave away seatbelts to everyone so that it benefits the humanity. Why do you want something useful like this to be with a company? Isnt it better if everyone in the world benefitted from this?

Observation is not advocacy.
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