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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 buzzy_hacker »

jimt1234 wrote: post #215
aaarrm wrote: post #60

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

Are you talking about these bad boys: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQG99L4J ? I suffer from motion sickness. It sucks. I'll try anything. If those goofy glasses work, I'll wear them.

My wife has terrible motion sickness in cars (just riding, reading is out of the question) and these glasses help a lot.

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

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Post by MomsAVoxell »

kazinator wrote: post #260
MomsAVoxell wrote: post #248

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I dunno, I was wondering about this .. if maybe there were a projector on the mast or from a cabin-ceiling mounted project, which always gave a local physical reference to the Earth, no matter the condition of the boat on the sea, it might kind of produce the same effect - albeit instead of applying dots to the screen, its dots to the hull. I really wonder if a polka-dot locator would be effective in addressing sea s…

You can get sea sick while outside on an upper deck. Or even if you're looking out of the window of the land vehicle you're riding. As a kid, I got nausea on ~2h bus trips, even though I looked out the window. If you don't look out the window, the onset may be quicker and stronger, so there may be some mitigating effect. Your best bet is medications, though. Funny story. This year I went to Ogasawara ("Bonin Islands"…

I'd quite like to see what the effect would be with the polka projector though, especially if its able to project feed points on the boat hull .. I think it'd be the same factor as Appels' device, no?

Anyway I can't tolerate a dependency on drugs at sea, at least not on my boat.

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Post by whycome »

himata4113 wrote: post #161
whycome wrote: post #160

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Maybe not even related to the noise cancelling but to do with air pressure or something with the inner ear? Do ear plugs work?

No, but it might be related to the fact that they have an exceptional seal and are the only things to actually stay in my ear. They do appear to also create additional pressure inside the ear especially in loud environments so might be related.

maybe its not that they have a perfect seal, but that they slow the pressure change so your ears adapt better? I think there are actually airplane earplugs that are meant to basically seal but have a tiny hole in them.

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Post by GreenWatermelon »

matt-attack wrote: post #191
dylan604 wrote: post #34

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> 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.

This is one hell of a trivia.

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

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Post by 40four »

King-Aaron wrote: post #183
40four wrote: post #16

Never knew this feature existed! I’ve gotten this type of motion sickness my whole life, so I’m excited to try it out. It would be nice if it’s effective for me. I get the same type of nausea described by the author. I can’t read a book or look at a screen for too long without a feeling awful. I can also get it just from sitting in a rear passenger seat, especially if vehicle has poor visibility, and even worse with…

Yeah I have a similar issue to you. If I look at my phone screen for a few minutes on the bus, I feel like I'm going to vomit. In fact most days that I commute on the bus I feel dreadful the entire way. Strap me into my race car on the weekend and pull G's in the corners... no problems at all. Sit me back on the bus, I want to throw up. The dots on the iPhone do help a little bit. I wouldn't say it cures me, but I ca…

Exactly. It seems to me it has to do with some sort of weird disconnect in our brains of feeling the motion of the vehicle, and what we are visually seeing with our eyes.

This is why I prefer to be in the driver seat at all times if possible. If you’re driving you’re in full control of everything & you’re intensely focused on all the surroundings. Absolutely zero motion sickness for me.

Front passenger seat of a four-door vehicle, you’re still pretty focused on you’re surroundings, but you have no control so unexpected movements can trigger this or looking at your phone/book/magazine or whatever intensifies the effect.

Sitting in the backseat is even worse, much more limited visibility. Sitting in the back of the bus like you said? Way worse, add to the fact that bus drivers tend to be pretty crappy, game over! Public buses absolutely destroy me as well. The only thing I can recommend is to stare outside the window and focus on things in the distance as much as possible.

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Post by MichaelRo »

King-Aaron wrote: post #219
MichaelRo wrote: post #218

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Didn't know there's a "car sickness" strictly related to reading the phone while in transit, I knew there's those people that can barely survive riding a car but that was it. I do get the "reading phone motion sickness" a couple of days after heavy drinking. The hangover has worn off but there's this weird after-effect which gradually fades over a few days until it completely disappears. At first I thought how the he…

> Based on my manifestations being chemically-induced, wonder if that's also valid in general. Interesting observation. I only drink on one day of my weekends these days, so I don't think mine would be correlated to alcohol. But sugar maybe? It's an interesting thought that it might be related to some kind of metabolic process that's influencing that feeling.

>> But sugar maybe?

Interesting observation back at you! :) Never thought of this but recently I started being a bit more careful with my sugar and carbs intake, after a blood test has shown an elevated level of glycated hemoglobin. Could be it's not alcohol per se but disruption of blood sugar after a binge drink, thanks for making the connection. Darn it, first no sugar, then no carbs now I have to cut down on alcohol too, getting old sucks :P

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

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Post by causality0 »

pfdietz wrote: post #201
causality0 wrote: post #95

I've always had the exact opposite problem. If I read or use my phone I'm fine. If I try to look around while the car is in motion I get more and more nauseated until after about 40 minutes I can barely walk when we finally stop.

Do you have poor balance? If your vestibular system is not reporting properly then a disconnect between eyes and its output could cause problems when you are looking around.

I'd say my balance is good. I'm no gymnast, but my coordination is generally excellent. I bump into things, drop things, and lose my balance much less often than most of the people I know.
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