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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 22 2007]
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//and fill it with alcohol// It is always booze with you, isn't it? |
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If you are in a vehicle/boat/plane that is vibrating through poor suspension/waves/turbulance wouldnt the device woble about anyway due to the inertia of the plasticine and magnet? |
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I have heard that pornography cures sea sickness, simple because it takes you mind off the motion, and gives you something to concentrate on. |
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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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