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These Wonky Glasses Help Cure Motion Sickness

Ever get horrible nausea from reading a book or looking at your phone in the car? Motion sickness can make a long drive in the passenger seat miserable, or make your stomach churn on a plane. Regardless of how woozy you actually get, it’s never fun. French car company Citroën has seemingly developed a solution to this problem, with the design of liquid filled glasses. The product has been dubbed Seetroën, and although they look like space age technology, the design is actually quite simple and effective. They contain liquid, which helps the mind resynchronize its perception of a stationary object in a moving vehicle.

Humans aren’t naturally meant to be moving at high speeds, and our inner ear, which gauges our balance and constancy, can be easily thrown for a loop and confused by the input received by our eyes. This often occurs when looking at a static object inside the car, the inner ear knows you are moving but your eyes looking down say something different. While looking outside of the car at object moving by doesn’t confuse our brains at all, simply looking down at your phone for a moment can completely put your brain out of whack.

Luckily, science comes to the rescue to keep us travelling in the modern world. The glasses need only be worn for a short time for the effects to take control, around 10 to 12 minutes. And although they are somewhat goofy looking, the results can be well worth looking like a crazy person. The company states that the glasses have worked on 95 percent of motion sickness in studies, and since about 1 in 3 people suffer from this, many can benefit from the glasses effects.

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